{"product_id":"2940151422833","title":"The Curator for Dead Souls","description":"Sophia Grey lives a placid enough life as a curator for one of England's most conservative museums. But whenever she has sex she tumbles out of London and into a strange, intangible museum, one that houses works of art that have fallen out of existence. And people are given to this museum – dead people – dead souls. \u003cbr\u003e  One of her lovers poses this challenge: what is sexuality like when you aren't confined and are not preoccupied with getting out of the confinement? Ako has created a sensual utopia called the State of Nature three stories underneath the streets of Paris. 'We use art, choreography, music and theatre – all of the arts – to create a charming but unreal world. And beautiful women, impossibly sexy kittens.' What if greed did not dominate our political and economic systems, she asks.\u003cbr\u003e  These alternative worlds fascinate Sophie, sucking her out of her everyday life but tearing her apart, until realities and fantasies meet head on in a struggle for her being.\u003cbr\u003e  The Curator for Dead Souls explores themes of the sacred and the profane, of separation from our past and our longing to be embedded in it, of agency and fate, and of the troubling bed that greed and obsession make for us.","brand":"Duddingston Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112938914032,"sku":"2940151422833","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151422833_p0.jpg?v=1764010155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151422833","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}