{"product_id":"paris-is-a-party-paris-is-a-ghostbooks","title":"Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Hoon Kim’s debut\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParis Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a transgressive, darkly comic novel of becoming lost and found in translation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a strangely distorted Paris, a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she’s already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik Blatand, an aspiring translator, these remnants are like clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her doppelgänger, reappears: in line at the Louvre, on street corners and subway platforms, and on the dissection table of a group of medical students.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHenrik’s inquiry expands beyond Fumiko’s seclusion and death, across the absurd, entropic streets of Paris and the figures that wander them, from a jaded group of Korean expats, to an eccentric French widow, to the indelible woman whom Henrik finds sitting in his place on a train. It drives him into the shadowy corners of his past, where his adoptive Danish parents raised him in a house without mirrors. And it mounts to a charged intimacy shared with his best friend’s precocious daughter, who may be haunted herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith each successive, echoic chapter, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParis Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e plunges us more deeply beneath the surface of things, to the displacement, exile, grief, and desire that hide in plain sight.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Kim, David Hoon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44486589513952,"sku":"","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/58724780.jpg?v=1702581944","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/paris-is-a-party-paris-is-a-ghostbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}