Description
| Product ID: | 9780330492324 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Kraken |
| Authors: | Author: China Mieville |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fantasy, Fantasy, London, Greater London |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre <p>Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, <i>Kraken</i> is a darkly comic, wildly absurd adventure by author of <i>Perdido Street Station</i>, China Miéville.<br><br>Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears?<br><br> For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biological rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god.<br><br> A god that someone is hoping will end the world.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-05-06 |
