- English Fantasy fiction, Prisoners, Prison hulks, Fiction
A mythmaker of the highest order, China Mieville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Mieville's Arthur C.
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- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- China Miéville
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 636
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Zysk I S-Ka, Pocket
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Italian, tur, German, French
- ISBN
- 9783404242986
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“It is only ten miles beyond the city that the river loses its momentum, drooling into the brackish estuary that feeds Iron Bay.”
China Tom Miéville (pronounced /ˈtʃaɪnə miˈeɪvəl/; born 6 September 1972 in Norwich) is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" (after early 20th century pulp and horror writers such as H. P. Lovecraft), and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird who consciously attempt to move fantasy away from commercial, genre clichés of Tolkien epigones. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party. He has stood for the House of Commons for the Socialist Alliance, and published a book on Marxism and international law. He teaches creative writing at Warwick University. ([Wikipedia][1
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