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This Census-Taker von China Miéville
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This Census-Taker (2017. Auflage)

von China Miéville

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Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. HTML:For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Miville.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly traumatic event. He triesand failsto flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape.
When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation might be over.
But by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? What is the purpose behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or something else altogether?
Filled with beauty, terror, and strangeness, This Census-Taker is a poignant and riveting exploration of memory and identity.
Praise for This Census-Taker
China Miville is a magician . . . who can both blow your mind with ideas as big as the universe and break your heart with language so precise and polished, its like hes writing with diamonds.NPR
The book haunts the reader; what actually happened seems always just out of reach, glimpsed in shadow as it rounds a corner ahead of our vision.Los Angeles Review of Books
[Mievilles] been compared to Karen Russell and George Saunders, and rightfully so.The Huffington Post
Marvellous.The Guardian
Lingers in the mind like an unsettling dream.Financial Times
A thought-provoking fairy tale for adults . . . [This Census-Taker] resembles the narrative style, quirkiness, and plotting found in the works of Karen Russell, Aimee Bender, or Steven Millhauser.Booklist
Brief and dreamlike . . . a deceptively simple story whose plot could be taken as a symbolic representation of an aspect of humanity as big as an entire society and as small as a single soul.Kirkus Reviews.
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Titel:This Census-Taker
Autoren:China Miéville
Info:London : Picador, 2017.
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Absolutely beautifully crafted, sinister, and ambiguous. ( )
  Helen.Callaghan | Aug 28, 2023 |
"weird" seems to be the word to describe this book. When I was a kid, there was a restaurant that set up these miniature tableaus that you could view through an eye viewer. I'm super short, so I could only stand on my tiptoes and catch glimpses of the edges of the scene. That's how this novella made me feel: Mieville created an expansive world and showed us slivers of it. There was no clear setting, the thinnest characters and definitely no plot. But there was atmosphere in spades. There will be fragments and passages that stick with me for such a long time.

In your life, you write three books. This is the one for a reader because some things can't NOT be written. But you can still have secrets.

This is the book that reminded me that reading is in and of itself a skill. This was challenging to follow and catch snippets, but so rewarding to read. ( )
  settingshadow | Aug 19, 2023 |
A slim novella, where China Miéville expertly crafts a dream-like atmosphere for a kid growing up in the dangerous shadow of his father.

I thought it took a while to get the main narrative going, but after that it didn't take me long to read. It has a lot of run-on sentences, perhaps to indicate the child's mood, and the prose sometimes took me a few passes to understand, but I liked this. The narrator's viewpoint shifts to third person and even to second person when he's under duress, a kind of playing with the form of writing that I don't think I've seen before.

Intense and affecting, loved it. ( )
  finlaaaay | Aug 1, 2023 |
I love Mieville. This was engrossing, the rhythms of the pacing brilliant. A great amount implied about the world but not explained. It was a fast, thrilling read without the plot moving quickly. The world was cruel and unjust in a way that demonstrates Mieville understands our world's cruelty and injustice deeply. ( )
  Afriendlyhorse | Mar 15, 2023 |
a novella using terrifically evocative but very simple language to tell starkly and without explication a not-so-simple story, about a boy, his father, his mother, a town. which also touches upon the limitations of language, the trauma of unbearable memories, the legacy of war, the exact point at which law breaks down into the viscerally unjust, and the impossible parsing of empathy and love. ( )
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Chong, VincentIllustratorCo-Autoreinige Ausgabenbestätigt
Stein, ChrisAuthor photographCo-Autoreinige Ausgabenbestätigt
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'Like all these long low squat houses, it had been built not for but against. They were built against the forest, against the sea, against the elements, against the world. They had roof-beams and doors and hatred—as though in this part of the world an architect always included hatred among his tools, and said to his apprentice: "Mind you've brought along enough hatred today."' 
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Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. HTML:For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Miville.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly traumatic event. He triesand failsto flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape.
When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation might be over.
But by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? What is the purpose behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or something else altogether?
Filled with beauty, terror, and strangeness, This Census-Taker is a poignant and riveting exploration of memory and identity.
Praise for This Census-Taker
China Miville is a magician . . . who can both blow your mind with ideas as big as the universe and break your heart with language so precise and polished, its like hes writing with diamonds.NPR
The book haunts the reader; what actually happened seems always just out of reach, glimpsed in shadow as it rounds a corner ahead of our vision.Los Angeles Review of Books
[Mievilles] been compared to Karen Russell and George Saunders, and rightfully so.The Huffington Post
Marvellous.The Guardian
Lingers in the mind like an unsettling dream.Financial Times
A thought-provoking fairy tale for adults . . . [This Census-Taker] resembles the narrative style, quirkiness, and plotting found in the works of Karen Russell, Aimee Bender, or Steven Millhauser.Booklist
Brief and dreamlike . . . a deceptively simple story whose plot could be taken as a symbolic representation of an aspect of humanity as big as an entire society and as small as a single soul.Kirkus Reviews.

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