{"product_id":"9781923023147","title":"Oblivion","description":"Author: Patrick Holland\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781923023147\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Transit Lounge\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jul 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Before nightfall I rode a taxi through Narita. Neon-lit restaurants and bars and dark cypress. The snow and a wind from the Sea of Japan had all but cleared the streets. Cedar temples sat beneath grey skies. Vending machines lit the wet and empty paths to their gates. I told the driver to go on to the city.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyrical and atmospheric. As the influence of the West falls away, an unnamed narrator drifts through the East's floating world of non-places - chain hotels, airports, mega-cities - finalising often covert operations and deals. When he meets the enigmatic and beautiful Tien, a 21st-century floating world courtesan, he becomes involved with people and events that threaten his plan to escape life via various forms of oblivion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvocative and sparely written, in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Mary Smokes Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, this is a novel where the journey becomes the story, filled with acute observation, desire and dreams. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Patrick Holland's writing:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'There is a directness and sparseness to the prose...the slow meditative tension calls to mind the dark romance of Greene's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.' - Jessica Au\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Holland is, quite simply, one of the best prose stylists working in Australia today.' - Matthew Condon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867065110686,"sku":"ADS-9781923023147","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781923023147.jpg?v=1779429126","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781923023147","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}