![]() In terms of its positioning amongst the rest of Mievilles work, Kraken seems most at home between the crazed YA Un Lun Dun and the recent noir detective novel' The City and the City. Kraken, Mievilles newest offering, brings together many of the elements evident in the authors fairly diverse backlog, resulting in a strange and Frankensteinian read that has the uncomfortable appeal of a rather violent car crash. ![]() ![]() When describing a Mieville novel, two things that inevitably crop up are nods to Mievilles in-depth world-building, and his idiosyncratic use of language, both of which are evident throughout his entire oeuvre, and even those pieces of work that depart substantially from the loosely linked Bas Lag trilogy. China Mieville is a British author who is probably best known for his vast Peake-esque Bas Lag books, for which he has received an array of accolades. ![]()
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