Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories

Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post â‚¬ NPR â‚¬Â The GuardianÂ â‚¬Â Kirkus ReviewsÂ â‚¬ The fiction of multiple awardâ‚¬â€œwinning author China MiÂ©ville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it in provocative, unexpected ways.
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London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpseâ‚¬s bonesâ‚¬"designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what?
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Of such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collectionâ‚¬"many published here for the first time. By turns speculative, satirical, and heart-wrenching, fresh in form and language, and featuring a cast of damaged yet hopeful seekers who come face-to-face with the deep weirdness of the worldâ‚¬"and at times the deeper weirdness of themselvesâ‚¬"Three Moments of an Explosion is a fitting showcase for one of literatureâ‚¬s most original voices.

Praise for Three Moments of an Explosion
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â‚¬Å“China MiÂ©ville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"The New York Times
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â‚¬Å“You canâ‚¬t talk about [China] MiÂ©ville without using the word â‚¬Ëœbrilliant.â‚¬ . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian
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â‚¬Å“[A] gripping collection . . . MiÂ©ville expertly mixes science fiction, fantasy and surrealism. . . . Amid the longer stories are more cerebral, poetic flash pieces that will haunt the reader beyond the pages of this exceptional book.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"The Washington Post
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â‚¬Å“The stories shine . . . with a winking brilliance.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"The Seattle Times
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â‚¬Å“Mind-bending excursions into the fantastic.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"NPR
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â‚¬Å“Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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â‚¬Å“Three Moments of an Explosion is a book filled with fabulous oddities.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Entertainment Weekly
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â‚¬Å“MiÂ©ville moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism. . . . His characters, whether ordinary witnesses to extraordinary events or lunatics operating out of inexplicable compulsions, are invariably well drawn and compelling.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Country USA
Manufacturer Del Rey
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-08-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101884720

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Del Rey
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2015-08-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101884720

Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories

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