Winner of the British Fantasy Award, The Scar by China Miéville is a colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination, set in the richly visualized world of Bas-Lag.
A human cargo bound for servitude in exile . . .
A pirate city hauled across the oceans . . .
A hidden miracle about be revealed . . .
These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoner's journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330534314
Number of pages: 816
Weight: 536 g
Dimensions: 196 x 131 x 50 mm
I'm a big fan of China Mieville's weird brain, whether he's writing crime thriller philosophy, alien linguistics-as-addiction, or hyper weird fantasy. His Bas-Lag books - of which this is the middle -... More
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