The Last Days of New Paris

✍ Scribed by Miéville, China

• Book ID: 108789050
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A thriller of war that never was --of survival in an impossible city--of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris , China Mieville 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 Marseilles, 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.

1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibault, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the...