Un Lun Dun
By every indication, Zanna seems to be the Chosen One, the girl who is destined to set things in order and lift the evil smog. Even foxes and umbrellas pay her tribute. So when Zanna and her friend Deeba are magically transported to another realm, Un Lun Dun seems headed toward the moment of her...
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By every indication, Zanna seems to be the Chosen One, the girl who is destined to set things in order and lift the evil smog. Even foxes and umbrellas pay her tribute. So when Zanna and her friend Deeba are magically transported to another realm, Un Lun Dun seems headed toward the moment of her triumph. But then, as readers of China Miéville may have already suspected, things happen that were not mentioned in prophecy -- and suddenly, 12-year-old Deeba is thrust into a world-saving situation.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780345497239 (0345497236)
Publish date: February 13th 2007
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Teen,
Science Fiction,
Urban Fantasy,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Steampunk
Darkest London Square: Deeba and Zanna discover a whole new side of the city. 'Un Lun Dun' starts promising, but it overstayed it's welcome. It had an old-fashioned, episodic nature to it, much like 'The Wizard of Oz' or 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. Deeba and Zanna are drawn by circumstance...
The weirdest afterschool special I've never seenThis book was an impulse purchase on a long airport layover a few years ago. I’d heard good things about China Miéville and wanted to give him a shot, and I figured a quick kids’ book read would be a good place to start, and then — classic me — I let i...
The weirdest afterschool special I've never seenThis book was an impulse purchase on a long airport layover a few years ago. I’d heard good things about China Miéville and wanted to give him a shot, and I figured a quick kids’ book read would be a good place to start, and then — classic me — I let i...
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville What is Un Lun Dun? It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people, too–including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas; Obaday Fin...
I am going to start with the positive. My first China Miéville book. Love his writing. I really do. I cannot wait to read The City & The City, which is the real Miéville book that I am waiting to read but wasn't at my bookstore. Love that he tries different genres of fiction in his writing. I really...
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