{"product_id":"the-mulai-9781552455197","title":"The Mulai","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterstellar \u003c\/i\u003evia \u003ci\u003eInvisible Cities\u003c\/i\u003e: spec-fic translated from Spanish imagines life on another planet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears after the climate wars on Earth, the Mulai have settled into their new home on an unnamed planet. Supplies stopped arriving from Earth many years ago, and the Mulai have found a way to live. But now the people of Earth want to know what happened to the settlers, so they send The Archaeologist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe finds that they have become a different people: uncannily similar to us but with something radically Other about them. Their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead, and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. They live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat a mysterious phrase from which they draw their name: \u003ci\u003emulai\u003c\/i\u003e, the tree comes. The Archaeologist feels like his trip is one extended misunderstanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith fragments from The Archaeologist's notes and the stories of Flukeh and Faida, who map both their world and their language, \u003ci\u003eThe Mulai\u003c\/i\u003e offers a glimpse of a world adjacent to ours - one that just may be a model for how to better our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Borges, Le Guin, and Calvino, \u003ci\u003eThe Mulai\u003c\/i\u003e is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemi's singularly playful and eclectic style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552455197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184","brand":"Munir Hachemi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537456787637,"sku":"9781552455197","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ab0636c0-cc8d-4a95-9bfa-dc4feb78c156.jpg?v=1779169636","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-mulai-9781552455197","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}