{"product_id":"dreams-in-the-black-smoke-paperback-1","title":"Dreams in the Black Smoke - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam J. Galanski-de León\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmidst the Great Age of polar exploitation, Captain Blaz Ritter leads a doomed expedition into the Arctic in search of the Fountain of Youth (and a very special banana).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDreams in the Black Smoke \u003c\/em\u003eis an experimental novella: part Kipling, part hallucination, part grotesquerie-by turns absurd, poignant, incomprehensible, exquisitely poetic, and unexpectedly hilarious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoin Captain Blaz on a psychedelic descent where edges and centres fold in on themselves. An expedition that becomes its own distortion, a strange mirror in which exploration turns back upon itself, revealing the beginning of its own end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunting children's games, secret manuscripts, indiscreet seductions; scenes carved in ivory and street-grime. Characters that cling like a prickle at the back of the neck, or a sudden shudder-Blaz himself like a piece of food between the teeth, sore and insistently present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once classic and sickeningly modern, otherworldly and as mundane as a nail through a shoe, the novella builds a growing sense of grim delight that circles back on itself irresistibly. An exploration of the inside of your head as much as the author's, and a seductive invitation to lose the boundary between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46597886771397,"sku":"9798295761621","price":26.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/f5MrEA5Qnk9798295761621_5837ca9d-8b44-4728-84d3-ac5b669bc1cc.webp?v=1785146583","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/dreams-in-the-black-smoke-paperback-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}