{"product_id":"the-chinese-mansion","title":"The Chinese Mansion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne night, a boy glimpses a dragon slipping into his bedroom – or thinks he does. The image lingers, strange and unshaken, like a riddle with no beginning and no end. Nearly two decades later, he is a lawyer in a quiet town in West Bengal, where days unfold in a hush of heat, dust and muffled lives. And across his street stands the crumbling and half-asleep Chinese Mansion, watching him as he watches it, as if the secrets it holds might one day explain his own. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy day, he navigates the ambiguous corridors of law. He defends a man accused of violating a child. He represents Aisha, a recently widowed woman fighting her family to claim her inheritance, drifting into a tentative companionship with her – never quite defined and always unfinished. He does not seek company, yet a few remain close: a retired sub-inspector who speaks to cats and his housekeeper with a murderer's past, both drawn into his orbit without ceremony or demand. The world, for him, doesn't fall apart, it simply dims and slips out of his reach every day. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSiddique Alam's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Chinese Mansion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a meditation on the human soul caught in the crosshairs of grief and imagination. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siddique Alam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45257620979759,"sku":"9789357315265","price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/chinesemansion.jpg?v=1777371604","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-chinese-mansion","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}