The Last Days of New Paris
China Miéville
Random House Publishing Group
<b>A thriller of war that never wasmdash;of survival in an impossible citymdash;of surreal cataclysm. In <i>The Last Days of New Paris</i>, China Mieacute;ville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new.</b><br> <i>ldquo;Beauty will be convulsive. . . .rdquo;</i><br> 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineermdash;and occult disciplemdash;Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andreacute; Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever.<br> 1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are...