{"product_id":"book-hkv5","title":"Found Audio","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the first time ever, Found Audio presents a complete transcription of the unsettling audio recordings of a mysterious unnamed adventure journalist and his decades-long pursuit of the Borgesian \"City of Dreams,\" alongside analysis from audio expert, Amrapali Anna Singh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* A Best Book of 2017 -Writer's Bone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] mysterious work of metafiction… dizzying, arresting and defiantly bold.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Laura Pearson, Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling \"City of Dreams.\" Spanning decades, his quest leads him from a snake-hunter in the Louisiana bayou to the walled city of Kowloon on the eve of its destruction, from the Singing Dunes of Mongolia to a chess tournament in Istanbul. The deposition also begs the question: Who is making the recording, and why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite being explicitly instructed not to, curiosity gets the better of Singh and she mails a transcription of the cassettes with her analysis to an acquaintance before vanishing. The man who bore the cassettes, too, has disappeared. The journalist was unnamed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere-for the first time-is the complete archival manuscript of the mysterious recordings accompanied by Singh's analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49408278823216,"sku":"BDhkv5","price":5.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hkv5","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}