KRAKEN: AN ANATOMY

Book ID/图书代码： 12844010B38205

English Summary/英文概要： With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things.

In the Darwin Centre at London’s Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre’s prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux—better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy’s tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air.

As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens—human and otherwise—are adept in magic and murder.

There is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanity—and beyond. There is the criminal mastermind known as the Tattoo, a merciless maniac inked onto the flesh of a hapless victim. There is the FSRC—the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit—a branch of London’s finest that fights sorcery with sorcery. There is Wati, a spirit from ancient Egypt who leads a ragtag union of magical familiars. There are the Londonmancers, who read the future in the city’s entrails. There is Grisamentum, London’s greatest wizard, whose shadow lingers long after his death. And then there is Goss and Subby, an ageless old man and a cretinous boy who, together, constitute a terrifying—yet darkly charismatic—demonic duo.

All of them—and others—are in pursuit of Billy, who inadvertently holds the key to the missing squid, an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 令人费解的事件发生在英国自然历史博物馆 — —泡在甲醛水中的一只一百四十英尺的巨型乌贼的标本，一夜之间消失了。此外，遭遇谋杀的受害者被发现，折叠放进玻璃瓶底。各种传媒开始对这只失踪的鱿鱼越来越感感兴趣，这其中就，包括天真的小职员、 一个伦敦秘密警察、 各大宗教团体，与各种超自然和主要的死亡犯罪分子，云集其中。奇妙的鱿鱼代表着全能的克拉肯教会。他们是否是来解放他们的神，或者可能被另一个社团偷取?唯一达成共识的就是，这个经过防腐处理的海怪，与世界末日有着密切的关系。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：Miéville (The City & the City, 2009) returns to the world of Perdido Street Station, a fantasy London where anything is possible and where something threatens to end the world and burn the city out of existence. Billy Harrow is a dedicated scientist who never imagined being caught up in intrigue, but after he successfully preserves a giant squid, he comes to the attention of the Krakenists, an obscure cult that worships squids. When the giant squid mysteriously disappears from the museum in the middle of the day, Billy is drawn into the world of cults, magic, and Armageddon. He is arrested by the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime unit (with a young witch as their tough-talking cop) and then escapes with Dane, a warrior in the Kraken church. Miéville’s fantasy is a rich literary work, full of wordplay and imagery that will appeal to literary-fiction fans as much as to fantasy readers. It is a very dense read, however, and lacks the thrills of City & the City, but Miéville’s dedicated readership will be willing to persevere to the end.---Jessica Moyer, From Booklist

British fantasist Miéville mashes up cop drama, cults, popular culture, magic, and gods in a Lovecraftian New Weird caper sure to delight fans of Perdido Street Station and The City & the City. When a nine-meter-long dead squid is stolen, tank and all, from a London museum, curator Billy Harrow finds himself swept up in a world he didn’t know existed: one of worshippers of the giant squid, animated golems, talking tattoos, and animal familiars on strike. Forced on the lam with a renegade kraken cultist and stalked by cops and crazies, Billy finds his quest to recover the squid sidelined by questions as to what force may now be unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Even Miéville’s eloquent prose can’t conceal the meandering, bewildering plot, but his fans will happily swap linearity for this dizzying whirl of outrageous details and fantastic characters. ---From Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： 柴纳·米耶维（China Mieville），1972年生于英格兰诺里奇，先后就读于剑桥大学，伦敦政经学院，哈佛大学。最后于伦敦政经学院获国际法学博士，博士论文为《对等权利之间：国际法的马克思主义理论》。 1998年出版处女作《鼠王》。2000-2004年相继出版了巴斯-莱格三部曲。2007年《伪伦敦》。2009年《城与城》。2010年‘Kraken’。2011年‘Embassytown’。2012年‘Railsea’。 其中巴斯-莱格三部曲获多项科幻小说奖提名并获得了‘阿瑟·克拉克奖’、‘英国科幻小说奖’等。而《城与城》获得2010年的‘雨果奖’。

China Mieville has lived all his life in London. His first novel, King Rat, received superb reviews and was nominated for fantasy awards, and his second, Perdido Street Station, astonished the literary world with its imaginative power and sheer inventiveness.

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