{"product_id":"the-cardboard-valise-9780375421143","title":"The Cardboard Valise","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ben Katchor\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book in more than ten years from \"the creator of the last great American comic strip\" (Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author): the story of the fantastical nation of Outer Canthus and the three people who, in some way or another, in­habit its shores.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmile Delilah is a young xenophile (lover of foreign nations) so addicted to traveling to the exotic regions of Outer Canthus that the government pays him a monthly stipend just so he can continue his visits. Liv­ing in the same tenement as Emile are Boreal Rince, the exiled king of Outer Canthus, and Elijah Salamis, a supranationalist determined to erase the cultural and geographic boundaries that separate the citizens of the Earth. Although they rarely meet, their lives in­tertwine through the elaborate fictions they construct and inhabit: a vast panorama of humane hamburger stands, exquisitely ethereal ethnic restaurants, ancient restroom ruins, and wild tracts of land that fit neatly next to high-rise hotels. \u003ci\u003eThe Cardboard Valise\u003c\/i\u003e is a graphic novel as travelogue; a canvas of semi-surrealism; and a poetic, whimsical, beguiling work of Ben Katchor's dazzling imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pantheon Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45355968790679,"sku":"9780375421143","price":1413.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780375421143.webp?v=1767671366","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-cardboard-valise-9780375421143","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}