The Last Days of New Paris Audiobook (Free)
- Ralph Lister
- 5 h 39 min
- Pan Macmillan
- 2017-02-23
Summary:
A thriller of a war that under no circumstances was – of success in an difficult city – of surreal cataclysm. WITHIN THE LAST Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines accurate historical events and people with his daring, exclusively imaginative make of fiction, reconfiguring history and artwork into something new.
1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack port Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the unusual games of about THE FINAL Times of New Paris dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde performers, Parsons finds and channels wish. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the battle and the world for ever.
1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis as well as the Level of resistance are trapped in unending issue, and the streets are stalked by living pictures and text messages – and by the causes of Hell. To escape the town, Thibaut must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intention on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic shape of opportunity and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.
But Sam is being hunted. And fresh secrets will emerge that may test almost all their loyalties – to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.
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