{"product_id":"9781529951523","title":"City of Rats","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Copi\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 April 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 144 pages\u003cbr\u003e205 x 138 x 18 | 226g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA darkly comic and wildly transgressive fever dream of a book, following one lost rat on a fantastical odyssey through the strange and deranged underbelly of Paris; this is Ratatouille on acid. Welcome 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":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56955848065399,"sku":"9781529951523","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781529951523.jpg?v=1774944620","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781529951523","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}