{"product_id":"plastic-emotions","title":"Plastic Emotions","description":"\"We architects must be idealists. We construct not just individual buildings, but whole cities. We plan cities, and in doing so, change lives.\"\n\nPlastic Emotions is a novel based on the true life story of Minnette de Silva -forgotten feminist icon and the first female Sri Lankan architect. In a gripping, elegant and lyrical story, Shiromi Pinto paints a complex picture of de Silva, charting her affair with infamous Swiss modernist Le Corbusier and her efforts to build a post-independence Sri Lanka that is heading towards political and religious turmoil.\n\nMoving between London, Chandigarh, Colombo, Paris and Kandy, at a time of communal violence in Sri Lanka, the rise of the civil war, and troubles with building a brand new city in north India, Plastic Emotions explores the life of a young, trailblazing south Asian woman at a time of great political turbulence across the globe.","brand":"Influx Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32132345135187,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781910312315_1173aa73-591c-4c2b-91ba-19c1e2498b08.jpg?v=1764844216","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/plastic-emotions","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}