The last days of new Paris : a novella / China Miéville.
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TextPublisher: New York : Del Rey, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 205 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780345543998
- 0345543998
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A thriller of war that never was--of survival in an impossible city--of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris , China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new.
"Beauty will be convulsive. . . ."
1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever.
1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts--and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.
But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties--to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.
Praise for The Last Days of New Paris
"Beautiful, stunningly realized . . . [ The Last Days of New Paris ] is a brief vacation in alien latitudes, a midnight layover in an imaginary place." --NPR
"A thoughtful, highbrow novella . . . Miéville's self-assured style offers up a strong sense of humanity, while the strange Surrealist monsters give Last Days a fun and complementary mad-science component." -- USA Today
"[A] testament to the necessary, progressive power of art . . . Both moving and disturbingly timely." -- Newsday
"A novel both unhinged and utterly compelling, a kind of guerrilla warfare waged by art itself, combining both meticulous historical research and Miéville's unparalleled inventiveness." -- Chicago Tribune
"An extraordinarily original work that foregrounds Mieville's considerable ingenuity and innovation." --The Millions
"Hauntingly poetic, strangely beautiful, and erratically intense." --San Francisco Book Review
"Dazzling . . . quite a feat." -- The Guardian
In the chaos of wartime Marseille, 1941, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever. In 1950, a lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts--and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse. But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties--to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself."-- Provided by publisher.