{"product_id":"the-inner-harbour-a-post-exotic-novel-paperback","title":"The Inner Harbour: A Post-Exotic Novel - 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\u003eAntoine Volodine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGina M. Stamm\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beguiling, perspective-shifting story of obsession and loss set in the grimy, late-colonial decadence of Macau at the end of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Inner Harbour, \u003c\/i\u003eAntoine Volodine focuses his literary investigations away from dystopian futures to a specific place at a particular historical moment: Macau on the eve of the Portuguese colony's transfer to China. In a seedy flat in one of the city's slums, a hired assassin named Kotter interrogates Breughel, a writer on the run from a mysterious organization code-named Paradise. Breughel has been hiding out in Macau with his lover, Gloria Vancouver, and a significant sum of the organization's money. But Gloria is dead and the money spent--or so Breughel claims--and now he lives alone in humid squalor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With increasing severity, Kotter extracts Breughel's confessions, but are they truth or subterfuge? Or are the confessions an elaborate work of fiction by a writer aware that they are no longer able to differentiate between memory and fantasy? Volodine brilliantly blurs the levels of narration--between what Breughel tells his interrogator, what he remembers or invents, and the stories he has written, including his accounts of Gloria's hallucinatory visions of an apocalyptic war between military forces and the \"chrysalids.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Interweaving threads of fiction and truth, lies and hallucinations, \u003ci\u003eThe Inner Harbour\u003c\/i\u003e evokes many of the themes found in Volodine's other \"post-exotic\" works: the slippage between dreams and reality, the nightmares of history, the exhaustion of literature and politics, and questions about what it means to be faithful to people or ideas long since vanished. But Volodine also uses the setting of Macau's late-colonial decadence to explore new sensations of foreignness, alienation, and resignation, all of which coalesce into a nesting doll of narrative that houses an unconventional and tragic love story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Antoine Volodine is the primary pseudonym of a French-Russian writer who has published twenty books under this name, of which several are available in English translation: \u003ci\u003eMinor Angels, Radiant Terminus, Bardo or Not Bardo, Writers, Solo Viola\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2021), and \u003ci\u003eMevlido's Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2024). He has won many literary awards, including the 2014 Medici Prize for \u003ci\u003eRadiant Terminus\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gina M. Stamm is associate professor of French at The University of Alabama and translator of \u003ci\u003eMevlido's Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 5.1 x 8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52584291369267,"sku":"9781517919696","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Ri4cN-fH5C9781517919696.webp?v=1761584017","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-inner-harbour-a-post-exotic-novel-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}