The Last Days of New Paris

Weaving together the historical and the imagined, China Mieville''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 Andre 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.

Product details

• Authors: China Mieville, China Mieville Mieville, China Miéville
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781447296553
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-9655-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Urban Fantasy, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), France, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary, FICTION / Fantasy / Epic, FICTION / Fantasy / Urban, FICTION / Fantasy / Historical, Historical fantasy, Modern and contemporary fiction