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Ghost Cities
A Literary Fiction Novel by Siang Lu
Subgenres:
- Magical Realism,
- Speculative Literary Fiction,
- Multi-Generational
This book is for you if you're into...
- Wildly surreal stories with sentient landscapes and ancient Emperors
- Narratives where reality, history, and myth blur together
- Offbeat humor about language, translation, and mistaken identity
Ghost Cities – inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China – follows multiple narratives, including one in which a young man named Xiang is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney's Chinese Consulate after it is discovered he doesn't speak a word of Chinese and has been relying entirely on Google Translate for his work.
How is his relocation to one such ghost city connected to a parallel odyssey in which an ancient Emperor creates a thousand doubles of Himself? Or where a horny mountain gains sentience? Where a chess-playing automaton hides a deadly secret? Or a tale in which every book in the known Empire is destroyed – then re-created, page by page and book by book, all in the name of love and art?
Allegorical and imaginative, Ghost Cities will appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and Italo Calvino.
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