Kraken

Paperback

Main Details

Title Kraken
Authors and Contributors      By (author) China Mieville
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 153
Category/GenreMyth and legend told as fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780333989517
Audience
General
Edition Export ed

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Macmillan
Publication Date 7 May 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This is a dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre. 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? 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. A god that someone is hoping will end the world.

Author Biography

China Mieville lives and works in London. He is two-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station and The Scar) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and Iron Council). The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published in 2009 to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell (The Times) and Phillip K. Dick (The Guardian).