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Kraken - China Mieville
Kraken
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With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this--or any other--year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police,... show more
With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this--or any other--year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about--or prevent--the End of All Things.In the Darwin Centre at London's Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre's prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux--better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy's tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air.As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens--human and otherwise--are...
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Format: Textbook
ISBN: 9780345497505 (0345497503)
ASIN: 9780345497505
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
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Chris' Fish Place
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Dear Mr. Mieville,I don't why I couldn't finish this book, maybe because I'm reading it at the wrong time, you know how that is, don't you?I loved The City & The City. I think that book is one of the greatest books ever.This one, not so much. It started at really well. I think Collingwood is wond...
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