Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
I don’t know how I missed the writing of China Miéville for so long!
If you appreciate the “entangled” school of exposition, You’ll lluuurve this one.
Perdido Street Station is a cruel, brutal, gruesome place, and we view it mostly from it’s underside, entering down a filthy, horribly polluted river. Millieu and character are intricately drawn, with relationships subtly revealed through narrative. Every person we meet, whether human, alien, beast, or even machine, some only mentioned as rumors, receives at least some attention, some growth (whether they survive or not) … The Mayor’s eyes, for instance … before the end. The character we drift in with, who remains sort of sidelined, slowly emerging throughout, is revealed in the last few paragraphs to be most changed of all.
My 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 reviews have become few and far between, reserved to indicate a profound and enthusiastic approval…
Perdido Street Station fully deserves this one.
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