{"product_id":"masquerade-paperback","title":"Masquerade - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMike Fu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon \u003cem\u003eThe Masquerade\u003c\/em\u003e, a translated novel about a masked ball in 1930s Shanghai. The author's name is the same as Meadow's own in Chinese, Liu Tian--a coincidence that proves to be the first of many strange happenings. Over the course of a single summer, Meadow must contend with a possibly haunted apartment, a mirror that plays tricks, a stranger speaking in riddles at the bar where he works, as well as a startling revelation about a former lover. And when Selma vanishes from her artist residency, Meadow is forced to question everything he knows as the boundaries between real and imagined begin to blur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exploring social, cultural, and sexual identities in New York, Shanghai, and beyond, Mike Fu's \u003cem\u003eMasquerade\u003c\/em\u003e is a skillfully layered, brilliantly interwoven debut novel of friendship, queer longing, and worlds on the brink, asking how we can find ourselves among ghosts of all kinds, and who we can trust when nothing--and no one--is as it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike Fu\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, translator, and editor based in Japan. He has studied in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Suzhou, and Tokyo. His Chinese-English translation of \u003ci\u003eStories of the Sahara\u003c\/i\u003e by the late Taiwanese cultural icon Sanmao was named a Favorite Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Prose. He is a cofounder and former translation editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Shanghai Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and currently a PhD candidate at Waseda University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 29, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43905055785095,"sku":"9781959030843","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/JnJFKA7vbW9781959030843.webp?v=1771199534","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/masquerade-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}