{"product_id":"spirits-abroad-limited-edition","title":"Spirits Abroad - Limited Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrawing inspiration from Asian myth, folklore and her own queer experience, the award-winning \u003cem\u003eSpirits Abroad\u003c\/em\u003e by Zen Cho will guide you from the mundane to the magical, to enchanted realms inhabited by dragons, vampires and incorrigible grandmothers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell meet an elderly ex-member of parliament, who recalls her youthful romance with an orang bunian. This was forbidden. Not because her lover was an invisible jungle spirit, but because she was Muslim and he was not. Then a teenage vampire struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love . . . and eating people. A mischievous matriarch returns from the dead to disrupt her own funeral rites, pitting granddaughter against granddaughter. An earth spirit becomes entangled in protracted negotiations with an annoying landlord. And Chang E, the Chinese moon goddess, spins off into outer space  the ultimate metaphor for diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcross nineteen sparkling stories, this is a journey into magical new worlds of the imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Zen Cho's work:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An enchanting cross between Georgette Heyer and Susannah Clarke, full of delights and surprises' -Naomi Novik, author of \u003cem\u003eUprooted\u003c\/em\u003e, on \u003cem\u003eSorcerer to the Crown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'\u003c\/strong\u003ePhenomenal. This is what it is to be queer and Asian . . . Magical and mundane, fierce and hopeful, Malaysian to the bone  this book is uncompromisingly itself' - Shelley Parker-Chan, author of \u003cem\u003eShe Who Became the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003eBlack Water Sister\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264219889958,"sku":"spirits-abroad-limited-edition","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/4ebcbb2c-640d-4aba-88eb-f1cc636cc659.jpg?v=1701430802","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/spirits-abroad-limited-edition","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}