{"product_id":"9781771668996","title":"Elevator in Sài Gòn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eChinatown\u003c\/em\u003e comes a personal and political journey through Hanoi, Sài Gòn, Paris, Pyongyang, and Seoul. \u003cem\u003eElevator in Sài Gòn \u003c\/em\u003eis part detective story, part historical romance, part postcolonial ghost story, and a biting satire of life in a communist state.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Sài Gòn for her estranged mother’s funeral. Her brother had recently built a new house there and staged a grotesquely lavish ceremony for their mother to inaugurate what was rumoured to be the first elevator in a private home in the country. But shortly after the ceremony, in the middle of the night, their mother dies after mysteriously falling down the elevator shaft.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFollowing the funeral, the daughter becomes increasingly fascinated with her mother’s past and begins to investigate and track a mysterious figure who emerges from her notebook named Paul Polotsky. Like an amateur sleuth, she trails Polotsky through the streets of Paris as he goes about his usual routines. Meanwhile, she zigzags across France and Asia, trying to find clues to the spiralling, deepening questions her mother left behind unanswered—and perhaps unanswerable.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thuận","offers":[{"title":"Book*hug Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-07-09","offer_id":45868045271295,"sku":"9781771668996","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_19b8ea7a-de5e-48b9-ad0d-bbc75da7e4be.jpg?v=1720725999","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781771668996","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}