{"product_id":"to-compare","title":"To Compare","description":"A bracing and variegated debut, Xuela Zhang's To Compare inhabits the fraught condition of living in and through translation in the age of globalization, social media, and the Chinese-American neo-Cold War. In To Compare, Zhang navigates the quagmire of transnational life, where one is always both here and away. \"Has language\/passed you by\/like a curvy city\/or shielded\/and isolated you,\/an illuminated vehicle\/against the flooding\/tenors of light?\" Zhang writes in To Compare, reflecting on the nature of translation – both linguistic and otherwise – as a way of life. Disjunctive, alluring, To Compare poetically represents our contemporary age.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492410237301,"sku":"9781964499468","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781964499468.jpg?v=1786529250","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/to-compare","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}