{"product_id":"city-of-rats","title":"City of Rats","description":"\u003cp\u003eCity of Rats by Copi \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-xl leading-tight\"\u003eTranslated from French by \u003cspan\u003eKit Schluter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-xl leading-tight\"\u003eWith a contribution by \u003cspan\u003eCésar Aira\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-xl leading-tight\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Holy Mountain meets Ratatouille in this X-rated fable by French provocateur Copi.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Publisher: \"Life isn’t easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rakä, he’s got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, and—as spring blooms in the City of Lights—a budding love interest. But after a double date goes horribly wrong, Gouri and Rakä, along with the royal Rat Court—the princesses Iris and Catarina, and their hilariously unpredictable mother, the Queen of Rats—find themselves adrift on the Seine, accessories after the fact to a double homicide, using their new ally, a small human child, as a life raft. From there, the hijinks metastasize. French police collar the gang along with Mimile, a sadistic murderer who never remembers his crimes. Having escaped lock-up (from the cell they’d been tossed into with their arch-enemies, a snake and a terrier), they pay a visit to the God of Man (a homeless recluse hiding out in the Sainte-Chapelle), but then the giant Rat Devil makes his appearance, full of fiery flatulence and threatening cataclysm…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"my-8 prose lg:prose-xl max-w-none\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTold in a series of letters purportedly written in rat language and posted from Gouri to his former master, \u003cem\u003eCity of Rats \u003c\/em\u003eis the second novel by French-Argentine exile, novelist, cartoonist, playwright, actor, and queer provocateur Copi to be translated into English and perhaps his most madcap work, an X-rated fable with high-velocity prose that smashes through societal taboos— moral, sexual, or otherwise—like a bullet train hitting a glass house. Whimsical, smutty, and surprisingly profound, \u003cem\u003eCity of Rats\u003c\/em\u003e will leave no reader unscathed, and every reader awestruck.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52409869304084,"sku":null,"price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0348\/3254\/7885\/files\/CityofRats.webp?v=1793895520","url":"https:\/\/givenscircle.com\/products\/city-of-rats","provider":"GIVENS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}