{"product_id":"shanghai-dancing-brian-castro-9781885030429","title":"Shanghai Dancing","description":"After 40 years in Australia, Antio Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls \"Shanghai Dancing,\" Antio seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family's wanderings. Reversing his parents' own migration, Antio heads back to their native Shanghai, where his world begins to fragment as his ancestry starts to flood into his present, and emissaries of glittering pre-war China, evangelical Liverpool and seventeenth-century Portugal merge into contemporary backdrops across Asia, Europe and Australia. A \"fictional autobiography,\" \u003ci\u003eShanghai Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling meditation on identity, language and disorientation that combines photographs and written images in the style of W.G. Sebald. \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e has described the book as \"an extraordinary polyglot mix of sources: Portuguese, Chinese, English, Jewish and Catholic, and a mysterious recessive black gene... told in Castro's characteristically baroque prose, dense with its passion for language and serious wordplay.\" The winner of some of Australia's top literary prizes, \u003ci\u003eShanghai Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e has been praised by its judges as \"a work of major significance [that] challenges our expectations of storytelling... It is impressive as history, as fiction, as a book which stretches the literary form and which speaks to the universality of the human experience.\" \u003ci\u003eShanghai Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e marks the U.S. debut of a major Australian literary figure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Castro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1885030428\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781885030429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kaya Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.20d","brand":"Brian Castro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939065561343,"sku":"9781885030429","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_6b84301c-bf62-4a0f-afac-d82962349710.jpg?v=1681439292","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shanghai-dancing-brian-castro-9781885030429","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}