Perdido Street Station

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Livre broché, 868 pages

Publié 21 mars 2011 par Pan Books.

ISBN :
978-0-330-53423-9
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In the squalid, gothic city of New Crobuzon, a mysterious half-human, half-bird stranger comes to Isaac, a gifted but eccentric scientist, with a request to help him fly, but Isaac's obsessive experiments and attempts to grant the request unleash a terrifying dark force on the entire city.

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a publié une critique de Perdido Street Station par China Miéville (New Crobuzon, #1)

Not my Favorite of China Miéville's Novels

I usually rather enjoy Miéville's novels. The City & The City and Kraken are probably two of my favorite fiction novels that I've read this decade.

But for whatever reason, I just could not get into Perdito Sreet Station. The prose was great, like usual. But the characters were off putting. The setting, just an odd collection of weird, half thought ideas. The entire conflict over the moths, just felt contrived.

Sujets

  • Strangers
  • Dystopias
  • Dissenters
  • City and town life
  • Fiction