About China Mieville presents The Rouse
For this exclusive online event China Mieville talks about his much anticipated new masterwork of fiction, 20 years in the making: a deeply moving, decade and continent-spanning epic of global tumult, and grim conspiracy.
Maur’s life has been shaped by an unbearable loss. But in the aftermath of what is an apparently ordinary tragedy, deeper, stranger questions arise... Their answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur’s obsessions – and is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces. So begins a book unlike any other: at once a sprawling saga of a bloody century, and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets and secrets – and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery.
Part of the British Library's Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival.
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China Miéville
China Miéville is a Sunday Times bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction.
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His novels include The City & The City, Embassytown, and Perdido Street Station. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction, he has won the World Fantasy, the Hugo, and the Arthur C. Clarke awards, among others. His non-fiction includes a study of international law and a history of the Russian Revolution.
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