{"product_id":"houses-of-ravicka","title":"Houses of Ravicka","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman's achievement ranks alongside many of Borges' in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact.\" --Jeff VanderMeer \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since 2010 writer and artist Renee Gladman has placed fantastic and philosophical stories in the invented city-state of Ravicka, a Ruritanian everyplace with its own gestural language, poetic architecture, and inexplicable physics. As Ravicka has grown, so has Gladman's project, spilling out from her fiction--\u003ci\u003eEvent Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ravickians\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAna Patova Crosses a Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e--into her nonfiction (\u003ci\u003eCalamities\u003c\/i\u003e) and even visual art (\u003ci\u003eProse Architectures\u003c\/i\u003e). The result is a project unlike any other in American letters today, a fictional world that spans not only multiple books but different genres, even different art forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHouses of Ravicka\u003c\/i\u003e, the city's comptroller, author of \u003ci\u003eRegulating the Book of Regulations\u003c\/i\u003e, seems to have lost a house. It is not where it's supposed to be, though an invisible house on the far side of town, which corresponds to the missing house, remains appropriately invisible. Inside the invisible house, a nameless Ravickian considers how she came to the life she is living, and investigates the deep history of Ravicka--that mysterious city-country born of Renee Gladman's philosophical, funny, audacious, extraordinary imagination.","brand":"Dorothy a Publishing Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616379887982,"sku":"9780997366662","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_a113606d-a9eb-49f9-a81b-d4a80cfff615.jpg?v=1775958002","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/houses-of-ravicka","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}