{"product_id":"sweetlust","title":"Sweetlust","description":"\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe eleven stories in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweetlust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e interweave feminist critique, intertextuality, and science fiction tropes in an irreverent portrait of our past, present, and future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a dystopian world with no men, women are “rehabilitated” at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of Young Werther\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erefocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAsja Bakić deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation. As she did in her acclaimed debut \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eMars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Bakić once again upends her characters’ convictions and identities—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and off-kilter eroticism. Visceral and otherworldly, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweetlust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes apart human desire and fragility, repeatedly framing pleasure as both inviting and perilous.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312864633214,"sku":"NW9781952177729","price":12.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781952177729.jpg?v=1778589955","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/sweetlust","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}