{"product_id":"ghost-town-by-kevin-chen-9781787703919","title":"Ghost Town","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Rich and complicated.' - \u003ci\u003eThe News Lens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost Town\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of twenty-first century Taiwanese 'native soil' literature.' - \u003ci\u003eUnited Daily News (Taiwan)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Magical, fierce, pungent, and cruel.' - \u003ci\u003eBIOS Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChen Tien-Hong, the only and desperately yearned for son of a traditional Taiwanese family with seven daughters, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen's boyfriend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTold in myriad voices—both living and dead—and moving through time with deceptive ease, \u003ci\u003eGhost Town\u003c\/i\u003e weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46521030476012,"sku":"9781787703919","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13568233482824.jpg?v=1749002771","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/ghost-town-by-kevin-chen-9781787703919","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}