King Rat, Paperback
Descriere
Award-winning fantasy and science fiction author China Mi ville's began his astounding career with the fantasy King Rat, a mix of a young man's search for identity with a pulse-pounding story of revenge and madness."" Mi ville's] prose melds James Herbert's nihilistic violence with the metropolitan paranoia of Martin Amis, circa London Fields."" --The Times (London) Something stirs in London's dark--and has viciously murdered Saul Garamond's father. Framed for the crime, Saul breaks out of prison with the help of King Rat, and plunges into a subterranean world of rats, garbage, blood, and madness--a world Saul was born to rule. But King Rat has plans for Saul, his special weapon in a war that goes back to a town called Hamelin. . . .
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.
