TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miéville,China
TI  - This census-taker: a novella 
SN  - 9781101967324
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Del Rey
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Strangers
KW  - Census takers (Persons)
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Mieville. In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly traumatic event. He tries--and fails--to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape. When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation might be over. But by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? What is the purpose behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or something else altogether? Filled with beauty, terror, and strangeness, This Census-Taker is a poignant and riveting exploration of memory and identity"--; "After his mother goes missing, a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly deranged father. When an odd man knocks on his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation are over. But will this stranger at last trigger the doom the boy has feared or will he somehow save the boy from the worst?"--
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