{"product_id":"rice-9780140256444","title":"Rice","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in famine-stricken 1930s China  Rice chronicles the complete debasement of a city family after it takes in a young man named Five Dragons  a starving wanderer from the provinces whose desire for power and sex is insatiable. In this mesmerizing novel  Su Tong  Chinas most provocative young writer  explores the connections between hunger  sexuality  and brutality. Rice is used as food and currency  as an aphrodisiac and an implement of sexual torture  as a weapon for murder and a symbol of everything good. Lush and sensual  combining a strange comedy with a dark undercurrent of violence  and written in hypnotically beautiful prose  Rice is a novel of startling richness and furious creative energy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924829339701,"sku":"ByrdShop_014025644X","price":46.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780140256444.jpg?v=1794142182","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rice-9780140256444","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}