{"product_id":"9781529951523","title":"City of Rats","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Copi \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished 02\/04\/2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardback | 144 pages\u003c\/p\u003e205 x 138 x 18mm | 226g\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the gutters of 1970s Paris – and the transgressive, darkly comic world of City of Rats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen pet rat Gouri finds himself locked out of his owner’s apartment, he has no choice but to strike out alone onto the pavements of Paris. But what begins as a strange and marvellous bedtime story - Gouri and his new friend Raka selling flour-coated worms to pigeons for spare change - soon spirals into an exhilarating whirlwind of murder, sex, unionised hamsters, courtroom drama, and, finally, Armageddon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through a series of letters from Gouri to Argentinian playwright Copi, City of Rats channels Copi’s lifelong fascination with society’s outcasts - queer people, immigrants, the homeless - into a fiercely imaginative, unflinchingly provocative tale of a world hurtling into madness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The greatest miniaturist of our age… Copi was a man of the Baroque, a Shakespeare, magically reincarnated in gay Paris' Cesar Aira'Decadent, poised, unpredictable, violent, galling, and marvellous' Charlie HebdoTRANSLATED BY KIT SCHLUTER; WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CESAR AIRA\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tales on Market Street","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43491383640270,"sku":"9781529951523","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7727\/4318\/files\/9781529951523.jpg?v=1776348274","url":"https:\/\/top-hatandtales.co.uk\/products\/9781529951523","provider":"Top Hat \u0026 Tales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}