{"product_id":"perdido-street-station-by-china-mieville-9780330534239","title":"Perdido Street Station","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerdido Street Station\u003c\/em\u003e is described as \"compulsively readable\" by \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e and a \"work of exhaustive inventiveness ... superlative fantasy\" by \u003cem\u003eTime Out\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans, mutants, and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies, and whores. Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently, something unthinkable is released. Soon, the city is gripped by an alien terror - and the fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of \u003cem\u003ePerdido Street Station\u003c\/em\u003e. It is too late to escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for China Miéville:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Miéville's] wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing.\" - \u003cem\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin, The Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e (on \u003cem\u003eThree Moments of an Explosion\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Dark and thought-provoking.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e (on \u003cem\u003eThe City \u0026amp; The City\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Richly conceived.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e (on \u003cem\u003eEmbassytown\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Miéville more than delivers.\" - \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e (on \u003cem\u003eKraken\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48356717166828,"sku":"9780330534239","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780330534239-perdido-street-station-1.jpg?v=1789440616","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/perdido-street-station-by-china-mieville-9780330534239","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}