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The Language of Money and Buildings single work   review  
Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 The Language of Money and Buildings
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'Oblivion locates itself primarily inside non-places: airports, bars, hotels—places for forgetting and being forgotten. Places that are not quite the country that they occupy, but an ‘architectural Esperanto’ designed for speed and size. The world of the novel is a ‘floating world’, a world of foreign investment and trade superimposed onto Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Vietnam.' (Introduction) 

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