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A thriller of conflict that never was - of survival within an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical happenings and people with his daring, exclusively imaginative make of fiction, reconfiguring background and skill into something new. "Beauty will be convulsive...." It's 1941. Inside the chaos of wartime Marseille, North american engineer - and occult disciple - Jack port Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including surrealist theorist André Breton. Inside the strange video games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde music artists, Parsons sees and channels wish. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the energy of dreams and nightmares, changing the conflict and the earth forever. It's 1950. A lone surrealist fighter, Thibaut, strolls a fresh, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Level of resistance are caught in unending turmoil, and the roads are stalked by living images and text messages - and by the makes of hell. To escape the town, he must get together with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a robust, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the lovely corpse. But Sam has been hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test almost all their loyalties - to one another, to Paris old and new, also to reality itself.
