{"product_id":"the-crossing-of-the-boars","title":"The Crossing of the Boars","description":"In December 1941, Japanese troops landed on the northern coast of Borneo and began a brutal three-year, eight-month occupation. Set in a forgotten theater of World War II, \u003ci\u003eThe Crossing of the Boars\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping magical-realist tale of a multiethnic village fighting for survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpening years after the war, with the Village of the Boars enveloped in wildfire smoke and confronted with a puzzling suicide, Zhang Guixing’s novel immerses readers in a tropical society plagued by violence. Once overrun with wild boars, Krokop finds itself overrun with Japanese soldiers, who prove harder to expel. The bloodshed of the initial invasion sparks a protracted guerilla resistance led by such characters as Boar King Chu, Oddball Zhung, Turtle Tsin, Red-Face Guan, Flat-Nose Chiew, and Skinny Shim. As the atrocities of the “devil” invaders mount, the jungle takes its own toll with wildfires, headhunters, crocodile attacks, macaque wars, and visitations by the vampire Pontianak. A phantasmagoria of jungle shadows, \u003ci\u003eyōkai\u003c\/i\u003e demons, and opium hallucinations make the hunters and the hunted alike unable to distinguish friend from foe, human from beast, and self from other. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Crossing of the Boars\u003c\/i\u003e is a stylistic masterpiece, a dazzling mix of ecological fantasy and labyrinthine mystery. Celebrated for its linguistic virtuosity reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez, William Faulkner, James Joyce, and Salman Rushdie, Zhang Guixing’s magnum opus is an epic work of historical fiction.","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57337920651608,"sku":"9780231217668","price":112.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780231217668_fdb8cbf0-0cbd-470b-b73d-28ff357ec523.jpg?v=1781056826","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-crossing-of-the-boars","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}