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For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Website link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a sensational, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and best-selling author China Miéville. Inside a remote house on a hilltop, a lonesome youngster witnesses a profoundly traumatic event. He will try - and fails - to flee. Still left alone along with his increasingly deranged mother or father, he dreams of safety, of getting started with the other children in the town below, of escape. When finally a stranger knocks at his door, the youngster senses that his days and nights of isolation might be over. But by what authority does indeed this man keep carefully the meticulous records he carries? What is the reason behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or another thing altogether? Filled with beauty, terror, and strangeness, This Census-Taker is a poignant and riveting exploration of memory and identity.
