- Conduct of life, Survival, Genetic engineering, Fiction
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Paolo Bacigalupi, Joshua Swanson
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 434
- Publisher
- J'ai lu, Perfection Learning, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780748129393
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