{"product_id":"cairo-9780957121379","title":"Cairo","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiction. Drama. Art. What do a crashed satellite, a string of bizarre murders and a time-warp conspiracy have in common? Welcome to CAIRO, where the future's just a game and you're already dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A genre defying anti-novel... Like communism it is the movement of vast majorities unfettered by a state!\"-Stewart Home, author of Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Unflinching in its portrayal of human greed.\"-The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArmand, Louis:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Louis Armand is a writer and visual artist who has lived in Prague since 1994. He has worked as an editor and publisher, and as a subtitles technician at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and is an editor of \u003cem\u003eVLAK\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. He is the author of eight novels, including \u003cem\u003eBreakfast at Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e in 2012, a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka's Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despair and edgy, dry existentialist hardboil (Richard Marshall, \u003cem\u003e3: AM\u003c\/em\u003e), CAIRO (Equus Press, 2014; short listed for the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e's Not-the-Booker Prize), and THE COMBINATIONS (Equus Press, 2016). Described as Robert Pinget does Canetti (in drag in Yugoslavia), Armand's third novel \u003cem\u003eClair Obscur\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Equus in 2011. His previous novel, \u003cem\u003eMenudo\u003c\/em\u003e (Antigen), was hailed as unrelenting, a flying wedge, an encyclopaedia of the wasteland, an uzi assault pumping desolation lead... inspiring! (Thor Garcia, author of \u003cem\u003eThe News Clown\u003c\/em\u003e).","brand":"Equus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50330502496530,"sku":"9780957121379","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8ffdabd2-bfd4-422e-a3d9-079d804e699f.jpg?v=1727802966","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cairo-9780957121379","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}