This Census-Taker
210 pages
|Published: 5 Jan 2016
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ISBN: 9781101967324
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Del Rey
Publication date: 12 January 2016
Description
For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, and Karen Russell, This Census Taker is the poignant and uncanny new novella from award-winning and bestselling author China Miéville. After witnessing a profoundly traumatic event, a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly deranged parent. When a stranger knocks on his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation are over—but by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? Is he the boy’s friend? His enemy? Or something altogether other?
