Description
Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Kraken is a darkly comic, wildly absurd adventure by author of Perdido Street Station, China Mieville.
Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears?
For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biological rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god.
A god that someone is hoping will end the world.
About the Author
China Mieville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and The Scar). The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell (The Times) and Philip K. Dick (Guardian).
Awards
Winner of Locus Award Best Fantasy Novel 2011 (UK). Short-listed for The Kitschies Red Tentacle Award for Best Novel 2011 (UK). Long-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 (Ireland).
Book Information
ISBN 9780330492324
Author China Mieville
Format Paperback
Page Count 496
Imprint Pan Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 332g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 37mm
