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This Census-Taker
Miéville, China (Author)
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Expected Release Date: April 30, 2026
A short, dark fairytale, Kafka rewritten by David Mitchell, and may well be the best thing you'll read all year.Guardian - Alex Preston, 'Fiction highlights for 2016'Miéville's solid, world-creating imagination is shown to powerful effect in this novella . . . Superb.Sunday TimesHarrowing beauty and existential disorientation . . . it's a Miéville book, after all . . . The interpretative stakes are high enough to give you a nosebleed.The Week - Helen OyeyemiMiéville's brain-twisting, inventive use of language pins the indefinable to the page, reading this slim book feels like gasping a lungful...ISBN (SKU)
9781037406966
Pages
160
Dimensions
197x130
Imprint
Picador
Published
30, April, 2026
Genres
Fiction
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