{"product_id":"the-midnight-timetable-trade-paperback","title":"The Midnight Timetable (Trade Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEqual parts bone-chilling, wryly funny and deeply political,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Midnight Timetable\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time's greatest imaginations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I inhaled Bora Chung's book of ghost stories and then slept with the light on!' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAvni Doshi, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBurnt Sugar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A wild midnight tour of a uniquely brilliant and exquisitely demented world - a world I did not want to leave!' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGerardo Sámano Córdova, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMonstrilio\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a labyrinthine research facility, where those who open the wrong door might find it's disappeared behind them or that the echoing footsteps they're running from are their own, an unnamed protagonist begins their night shift under the watchful eye of the building's enigmatic senior guard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach evening, as the fluorescent lights flicker and the silence grows heavier, the guard shares another tale of cursed objects and lives unspooled by vengeance, sorrow or revelation. But these are not mere ghost stories. They're warnings. Lessons. Or, perhaps, confessions . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the nights stretch on and reality frays, our protagonist starts to suspect that the building itself is alive with malevolent intent and that the objects they guard aren't just cursed. They're waiting. Watching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Electrifying. A feast of a book. Strange, hypnotic and audacious.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIrenosen Okojie, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCurandera\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fascinating novel of shifting realities centred by a steady, humane heart. Bora Chung is a master of concocting dreamscapes that linger.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMarie-Helene Bertino, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBeautyland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'These ghost stories . . . mist off the page and leave the real world hazy and askew.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePemi Aguda, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGhostroots\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bora Chung","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46600419377330,"sku":"9780349705187","price":360.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9780349705187.jpg?v=1760100173","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/the-midnight-timetable-trade-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}