Set in London, China Mieville's first book is high adventure with a dash of social criticism. Snaking through the reader like the Drum and Bass beats of the DJs in the story; incorporating the mythology/folklore of the Pied Piper, King Rat, Anansi and Loplop; playing on the tensions of fathers/sons and counterculture/authority ...
"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, above all, to make you see." -- Joseph Conrad (1897)
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Recommended Fiction: King Rat (China Mieville, 1998)
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Set in London, China Mieville's first book is high adventure with a dash of social criticism. Snaking through the reader like the Drum and Bass beats of the DJs in the story; incorporating the mythology/folklore of the Pied Piper, King Rat, Anansi and Loplop; playing on the tensions of fathers/sons and counterculture/authority ...
Set in London, China Mieville's first book is high adventure with a dash of social criticism. Snaking through the reader like the Drum and Bass beats of the DJs in the story; incorporating the mythology/folklore of the Pied Piper, King Rat, Anansi and Loplop; playing on the tensions of fathers/sons and counterculture/authority ...
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