{"product_id":"houses-of-ravicka","title":"Houses of Ravicka","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHouses of Ravicka\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRenee Gladman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780997366662\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDorothy, a publishing project\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman's achievement ranks alongside many of Borges' in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact.\" --Jeff VanderMeer \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since 2010 writer and artist Renee Gladman has placed fantastic and philosophical stories in the invented city-state of Ravicka, a Ruritanian everyplace with its own gestural language, poetic architecture, and inexplicable physics. As Ravicka has grown, so has Gladman's project, spilling out from her fiction--\u003ci\u003eEvent Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ravickians\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAna Patova Crosses a Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e--into her nonfiction (\u003ci\u003eCalamities\u003c\/i\u003e) and even visual art (\u003ci\u003eProse Architectures\u003c\/i\u003e). The result is a project unlike any other in American letters today, a fictional world that spans not only multiple books but different genres, even different art forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHouses of Ravicka\u003c\/i\u003e, the city's comptroller, author of \u003ci\u003eRegulating the Book of Regulations\u003c\/i\u003e, seems to have lost a house. It is not where it's supposed to be, though an invisible house on the far side of town, which corresponds to the missing house, remains appropriately invisible. Inside the invisible house, a nameless Ravickian considers how she came to the life she is living, and investigates the deep history of Ravicka--that mysterious city-country born of Renee Gladman's philosophical, funny, audacious, extraordinary imagination.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Dorothy, a publishing project","offers":[{"title":"Houses of Ravicka | Renee Gladman | Book | 9780997366662 | New | Fiction 1405497","offer_id":50560745537794,"sku":"1405497","price":29.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41OMakAUKbL.jpg?v=1790698094","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/houses-of-ravicka","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}