{"title":"ká-sióng","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eká-sióng\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, from the Taiwanese romanisation of 假想, which means make-believe, imagine, hypothesise – derived from 假 'ká' meaning 'false' and 想 'sióng' meaning 'thinking', so 'false thinking' \/ imagination \/ hypothesis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eThe perfect pick-me-up for the literary curious, each carefully selected story is full of piercing insight and intrigue. We have local MPs facing PR disasters in the midst of a wave of social outrage; boy meets girl in a rooftop life pact; a chilling, gothic fable in which the narrator is bitten by a mountain rat before a troubling sickness takes hold; a dystopian future in which people are paid handsomely to remove negative emotions; and gossip surrounding a woman who has fallen into a coma as an unnamed narrator watches over her and tracks the comments the incident has attracted online.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eká-sióng\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas made possible through generous funding from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMinistry of Culture,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTaiwan;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNational Museum of Taiwan Literature; and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLiterature from Taiwan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"social-ka-siong-4","title":"Social (ká-sióng 4)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook 4 of Strangers Press' k\u003cspan\u003eá-sióng chapbook series.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman has fallen off the roof of her house in what was either a drunken accident or an attempted suicide and now lies in a coma. Over the course of the next seven days, the unnamed narrator watches over her while tracking the comments the incident has attracted online.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eká-sióng\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, from the Taiwanese romanisation of 假想, which means make-believe, imagine, hypothesise – derived from 假 'ká' meaning 'false' and 想 'sióng' meaning 'thinking', so 'false thinking' \/ imagination \/ hypothesis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eThe perfect pick-me-up for the literary curious, each carefully selected story is full of piercing insight and intrigue. We have local MPs facing PR disasters in the midst of a wave of social outrage; boy meets girl in a rooftop life pact; a chilling, gothic fable in which the narrator is bitten by a mountain rat before a troubling sickness takes hold; a dystopian future in which people are paid handsomely to remove negative emotions; and gossip surrounding a woman who has fallen into a coma as an unnamed narrator watches over her and tracks the comments the incident has attracted online.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eká-sióng\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas made possible through generous funding from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMinistry of Culture,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTaiwan;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNational Museum of Taiwan Literature; and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLiterature from Taiwan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48140309823712,"sku":"9781915812650","price":2660.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9781915812650.jpg?v=1763450618"},{"product_id":"mountain-rat-ka-siong-3","title":"Mountain Ra (ká-sióng 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBook 3 of Strangers Press' k\u003cspan\u003eá-sióng chapbook series.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chilling, gothic fable in which the narrator is bitten by a mountain rat while out in the forest. Recalling his grandfather once told him of a bamboo hut where members of the tribe could quarantine for up to two years when they got ill, he rushes home to say goodbye to his wife Yu-Su and pack his bags as a troubling sickness takes hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eká-sióng\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, from the Taiwanese romanisation of 假想, which means make-believe, imagine, hypothesise – derived from 假 'ká' meaning 'false' and 想 'sióng' meaning 'thinking', so 'false thinking' \/ imagination \/ hypothesis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eThe perfect pick-me-up for the literary curious, each carefully selected story is full of piercing insight and intrigue. We have local MPs facing PR disasters in the midst of a wave of social outrage; boy meets girl in a rooftop life pact; a chilling, gothic fable in which the narrator is bitten by a mountain rat before a troubling sickness takes hold; a dystopian future in which people are paid handsomely to remove negative emotions; and gossip surrounding a woman who has fallen into a coma as an unnamed narrator watches over her and tracks the comments the incident has attracted online.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eká-sióng\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas made possible through generous funding from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMinistry of Culture,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTaiwan;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNational Museum of Taiwan Literature; and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLiterature from Taiwan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48202446110944,"sku":"9781915812681","price":2660.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9781915812681.jpg?v=1764902556"},{"product_id":"cloud-labour-ka-siong-2","title":"Cloud Labour (ká-sióng 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBook 2 of Strangers Press' k\u003cspan\u003eá-sióng chapbook series.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in an unspecified dystopian future in which people known as ‘Proxies’ are paid handsomely to remove negative emotions from their clients, Peacock, a successful Proxy, trains her son Sky to join the profession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eká-sióng\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, from the Taiwanese romanisation of 假想, which means make-believe, imagine, hypothesise – derived from 假 'ká' meaning 'false' and 想 'sióng' meaning 'thinking', so 'false thinking' \/ imagination \/ hypothesis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eThe perfect pick-me-up for the literary curious, each carefully selected story is full of piercing insight and intrigue. We have local MPs facing PR disasters in the midst of a wave of social outrage; boy meets girl in a rooftop life pact; a chilling, gothic fable in which the narrator is bitten by a mountain rat before a troubling sickness takes hold; a dystopian future in which people are paid handsomely to remove negative emotions; and gossip surrounding a woman who has fallen into a coma as an unnamed narrator watches over her and tracks the comments the incident has attracted online.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eká-sióng\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas made possible through generous funding from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMinistry of Culture,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTaiwan;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNational Museum of Taiwan Literature; and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLiterature from Taiwan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48202446176480,"sku":"9781915812674","price":2660.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9781915812674.jpg?v=1764902556"},{"product_id":"not-your-child-ka-siong-5","title":"Not Your Child (ká-sióng 5)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBook 5 of Strangers Press' k\u003cspan\u003eá-sióng chapbook series.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA by turns humorous, touching and harrowing story concerning Yu-Jie, a Social Media Manager for a local MP facing a PR disaster in the midst of a wave of social outrage stirred up by a troubling crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eká-sióng\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, from the Taiwanese romanisation of 假想, which means make-believe, imagine, hypothesise – derived from 假 'ká' meaning 'false' and 想 'sióng' meaning 'thinking', so 'false thinking' \/ imagination \/ hypothesis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eThe perfect pick-me-up for the literary curious, each carefully selected story is full of piercing insight and intrigue. 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Instead, they chat and make a pact that sees their lives gradually entwine but unravel at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eká-sióng\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, from the Taiwanese romanisation of 假想, which means make-believe, imagine, hypothesise – derived from 假 'ká' meaning 'false' and 想 'sióng' meaning 'thinking', so 'false thinking' \/ imagination \/ hypothesis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eThe perfect pick-me-up for the literary curious, each carefully selected story is full of piercing insight and intrigue. 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