{"product_id":"awake-in-the-floating-city-2","title":"Awake in the Floating City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2026 -  a climate fiction novel with a dystopian world as its setting and at its heart is a human story about compassion in times of great adversity - for fans of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBirnam Wood. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Susanna Kwan writes climate change into the grain of ordinary life, allowing us into the intimate world of loss, love and attention’ \u003cb\u003eKit de Waal\u003c\/b\u003e, Climate Fiction Prize judge commented on \u003ci\u003eAwake in the Floating City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An astonishing work of art...This is the kind of book that changes you, that leaves you seeing more vividly, and living more fully, in its wake’\u003cb\u003e Rachel Khong, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eReal Americans\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Gorgeous, lush, struck with humor and light, so warm, caring and care-taking, luminous and wise’\u003cb\u003e Meng Jin, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLittle Gods\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a future San Francisco transformed by years of rain, Bo, a 40-year-old lapsed artist, is grieving the community she’s lost to catastrophic flooding. Her friends and family have disappeared or fled, the streets are rivers, and the buildings are falling apart.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet on the day of her planned departure, Bo finds a note slipped under her door: ‘I need help’, it reads. ‘Three days a week, afternoons. Can pay in cash.’       \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnable to bring herself to board the ship that could save her life, Bo instead chooses to answer the note, which turns out to have been written by her neighbour Mia, a 130-year-old “supercentenarian” long abandoned by her own family.   \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55634675663192,"sku":"9781398543393","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781398543393_0c647abf-48b4-4aa2-a8a9-d8ec9d0b8d85.jpg?v=1778677262","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/awake-in-the-floating-city-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}