{"product_id":"indigenous-species","title":"Indigenous Species","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e‘A ballad about wounded islands and their people, \u003cem\u003eIndigenous Species\u003c\/em\u003e reminds me of an old song, the kind our village storytellers used to sing. It has a fairytale quality, setting a dreamlike world alongside the horror of real lives; in other words, it’s like a lullaby, but one that will make you stay awake.’ — Eka Kurniawan, author of \u003cem\u003eBeauty is a Wound\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eA young girl is abducted and smuggled aboard a boat bound upstream on an Indonesian river, through a landscape scarred by ecological destruction and historical greed. As her captors take her ever deeper into the jungle, her uncertain fate is compounded by the sense of her environment as a place of violence, destruction and jeopardy. But it is also a place from which she herself is indigenous, and if she can root herself back into its landscape and languages, she may yet save herself. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eKhairani Barokka addresses issues of pollution, consumerism, and habitat destruction with a poet's sensibility, and her frenetic neon artwork, inspired by contemporary glitch artists while also incorporating traditional motifs, aims to overturn our ideas of the jungle as a place of threatening darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Limestone Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56090006192508,"sku":null,"price":13.75,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/4119\/8402\/files\/untitled_2_aba3e907-963c-4d2a-998c-f1bc92778b8e.png?v=1764954455","url":"https:\/\/limestonebooks.org\/products\/indigenous-species","provider":"Limestone Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}