{"product_id":"the-mulai-9781552455197","title":"The Mulai","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterstellar \u003c\/i\u003evia \u003ci\u003eInvisible Cities\u003c\/i\u003e: spec-fic translated from Spanish imagines life on another planet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn archeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community: a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead, and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. As the archeologist records his attempts to understand their world – a strange negative of our own – questions of translation, meaning-making, and the ultimate precarity of civilization come to the fore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Borges, Le Guin, and Calvino, \u003ci\u003eThe Mulai\u003c\/i\u003e is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemi’s singularly playful and eclectic style.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Munir Hachemi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48281719079163,"sku":"9781552455197","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_16a5431f-d50e-4fd2-930c-58469f7db9a7.jpg?v=1780522942","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-mulai-9781552455197","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}