- Title:
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The Last Days of New Paris
- Written by:
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China Miéville
- Read by:
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Ralph Lister
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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5
- Duration:
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5 hours 40 minutes
- Published:
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April 28 2017
- Available Date:
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April 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781509861347
- Genres:
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Fiction; Fantasy Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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'Both unhinged and utterly compelling, a kind of guerrilla warfare waged by art itself, combining both meticulous historical research and Miéville's unparalleled inventiveness.'
Los Angeles Times
'A fine introduction to [Miéville's] unique imagination.'
Chicago Tribune
'There's so much absurd beauty among the fauna in this story of surrealist art come to life in Nazi-occupied France ... moving and disturbingly timely.'
Newsday
A stunningly surreal alternative history of Paris, from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author, China Miéville.
A thriller of a 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.
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 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 for ever.
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, Thibaut 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.