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From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making—a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy.
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Epic, overwhelming, demanding and meticulous.
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“Is it too big for its own story?”
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“Is The Rouse harder work than it needs to be?”
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“Is this China Miéville's best work?”
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If you loved this book, the film, the television, the music, the game.