{"product_id":"dreams-in-the-black-smoke-adam-j-galanski-de-lezen-9798295761621","title":"Dreams in the Black Smoke","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmidst the Great Age of polar exploitation, Captain Blaz Ritter leads a doomed expedition into the Arctic in search of the Fountain of Youth (and a very special banana).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDreams in the Black Smoke \u003c\/em\u003eis an experimental novella: part Kipling, part hallucination, part grotesquerie-by turns absurd, poignant, incomprehensible, exquisitely poetic, and unexpectedly hilarious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoin Captain Blaz on a psychedelic descent where edges and centres fold in on themselves. An expedition that becomes its own distortion, a strange mirror in which exploration turns back upon itself, revealing the beginning of its own end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunting children's games, secret manuscripts, indiscreet seductions; scenes carved in ivory and street-grime. Characters that cling like a prickle at the back of the neck, or a sudden shudder-Blaz himself like a piece of food between the teeth, sore and insistently present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once classic and sickeningly modern, otherworldly and as mundane as a nail through a shoe, the novella builds a growing sense of grim delight that circles back on itself irresistibly. An exploration of the inside of your head as much as the author's, and a seductive invitation to lose the boundary between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam J. Galanski-de León\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798295761621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Glove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.47d","brand":"Adam J. Galanski-de León","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743212515583,"sku":"9798295761621","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dreams-in-the-black-smoke-adam-j-galanski-de-lezen-9798295761621","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}