Iron Council

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780345464026
  • 01 juli 2004
  • 564 pagina's
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China Mieville

"China Tom Miéville FRSL (/ˈtʃaɪnə miˈeɪvəl/, CHY-nə mee-AY-vəl; born 6 September 1972) is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer, political activist and academic. He often describes his work as weird fiction and allied to the loosely associated movement of writers sometimes called New Weird.

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It is a time of revolts and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming metropolis to the brink. In the midst of this turmoil, a mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places. In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope, an undying legend. In the blood and violence of New Crobuzon' s most dangerous hour, there are whispers. It is the time of the Iron Council.

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Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
01 juli 2004
Aantal pagina's
564
Illustraties
Nee

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Hoofdauteur
China Mieville
Hoofduitgeverij
Random House Usa Inc

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2004 - First Edition - HC with dust jacket - 564 p.
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154 mm
Product hoogte
35 mm
Product lengte
233 mm
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Nee
Verpakking breedte
170 mm
Verpakking hoogte
35 mm
Verpakking lengte
236 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
885 g

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9780345464026

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  • Needlessly convoluted

    Positieve punten

    • Fantasierijk
    • origineel

    Negatieve punten

    • Moeilijk in te komen
    • pretentieus taalgebruik

    Several decades after the events described in ‘Perdido Street Station’ and the city-state of New Crobuzon is in uproar. The town’s militia has turned from covert policing to unhidden repression while the underground movements are gaining popularity and influence. At the same time a war is raging between New Crobuzon and the southern state of Tesh.

    The perspective in this novel switches between Judah who is looking for the mysterious Iron Council to warn it of New Crobuzon’s plan to destroy it, Cutter, one of Judah’s hangers-on, and Ori who is ascending in the ranks of one of New Crobuzon’s guerrilla underground movements. Certainly in the first half of the book the author uses a more or less detached third person perspective so that regularly the motivations of the lead characters are not very obvious. China Mieville’s storytelling which was so creative and imaginative in the two previous Bas-Lag novels has in this book turned into an unnecessarily tedious vocabulary jungle. The reader will often be forced to return to the dictionary and the encyclopedia to make sense of large parts of the prose. The story becomes more engaging and compelling around halfway through, though the events become increasingly unimaginable as well.

    The story as well as the writing style of this book makes it a quite inaccessible work. It is recommended to anyone who has read ‘Perdido Street Station’ and ‘The Scar’ and would like to immerse themselves further into the Bas-Lag world. However, for everyone else it is an inadequate introduction to both the work of China Mieville as to the Bas-Lag world and is best left aside.

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  • Klasse

    Positieve punten

    • Spannend
    • Fantasierijk

    Negatieve punten

    • Ingewikkeld verhaal

    Gekende Mieville stijl, leest als een trein.

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