Savage giant moles, rail pirates, and explorers abound in China Miéville's thrilling young adult novel, Railsea.On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt. The giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death and the other’s glory – are extraordinary. But no matter how spectacular it is, travelling the endless rails of the railsea, Sham senses that there’s more to life. Even if his captain can think only of her obsessive hunt for one savage mole. When they find a wrecked train, it's a welcome distraction. But the impossible salvage Sham finds there leads to trouble. Soon he's hunted on all sides: by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters and salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.
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Venture into the Railsea - an epic journey for readers of all ages.
Fiction of the new century.
Venture into the Railsea - an epic journey for readers of all ages.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781447213673
Publisert
2013-04-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Pan Books
Vekt
266 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
132 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
00, Y, 03
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

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Biographical note

China Miéville lives & works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award & has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim & drew comparison with the works of Kafka & Orwell and Philip K. Dick. He is also the author of the YA novel, Un Lun Dun, which won the Locus Award For Best Young Adult Book.