{"product_id":"three-moments-of-an-explosion-stories-1","title":"Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThree Moments of an Explosion: Stories\u003c\/h1\u003eChina Miéville\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Del Rey Books\u003cbr\u003eJune 7 2016\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781101884782\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1101884789\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post - \u003c\/i\u003eNPR - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian - Kirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e The fiction of multiple award-winning author China Miéville 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 corpse's bones--designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOf such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collection--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 world--and at times the deeper weirdness of themselves--\u003ci\u003eThree Moments of an Explosion\u003c\/i\u003e is a fitting showcase for one of literature's most original voices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThree Moments of an Explosion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"China Miéville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThree Moments of an Explosion, \u003c\/i\u003ecrowds virtuosity into every sentence.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"You can't talk about [China] Miéville without using the word 'brilliant.' . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ursula K. Le Guin, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[A] gripping collection . . . Miéville 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.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The stories shine . . . with a winking brilliance.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Mind-bending excursions into the fantastic.\"\u003cb\u003e--NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThree Moments of an Explosion\u003c\/i\u003e is a book filled with fabulous oddities.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Miéville 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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390791974957,"sku":"WHS-e39d56fdefb44447b31c20d093b7a3c8","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_3a0bd80a-f106-44ae-99fa-e7831e2a988e.jpg?v=1787347318","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/three-moments-of-an-explosion-stories-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}