The Last Days of New Paris
Descriere
Weaving together the historical and the imagined, China Miéville's The Last Days of New Paris is a surreal and extraordinary work, from the author of The City & The City.
1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of 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 for ever.
1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts - and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, Thibaut must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.
But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties - to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.
Despre autor
China Tom Miéville este un premiat scriitor englez de ficțiune fantasy. El este pasionat de munca sa pe care o descrie ca weird fiction și aparține unui grup de scriitori uneori numiți New Weird, care conștient încercă să îndepărteze literatura fantasy de clișeele comerciale. El este, de asemenea, activ în politica de stânga în calitate de membru al Partidului Socialist Muncitoresc Britanic.
