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Un Lun Dun - China Mievelle


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Un Lun Dun - China Mievelle

 
Description: ISBN 0230015867 / Author: China Mieville / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and ... more
Un Lun Dun - China Mievelle ... faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew tinny ... The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London. Zanna and Deeba are two girls leading ordinary lives, until they stumble into the world of UnLondon, an urban Wonderland where all the lost and broken things of London end up ... and some of its lost and broken people too. Here discarded umbrellas stalk with spidery menace, carnivorous giraffes roam the streets, and a jungle sprawls beyond the door of an ordinary house. UnLondon is under siege by the sinister Smog and its stink-junkie slaves; it is a city awaiting its hero. Guided by a magic book that can't quite get its facts straight, and pursued by Hemi the half-ghost boy, the girls set out to stop the poisonous cloud before it burns everything in its path. They are joined in their quest by a motley band of UnLondon locals, including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas, Obaday Fing, a couturier whose head is an enormous pincushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle ... and you thought a trip down the rabbit hole was a little out of the ordinary. The world of UnLondon is populated by astonishing frights and delights that will thrill the imagination.

Newest Review: ... martial arts (the binja!), discarded umbrellas, eccentric tailors constructed of the very tools of their trade, and countless ... more

 ... other bizarre fauna. As the story develops it becomes clear that UnLondon is London's perverse shadow, a by-product of London's dispossessed cast-offs that have 'fallen through the cracks' and been given new life. Despite the jumbling detritus that makes up UnLondon, the arrival of two very human newcomers doesn't go unnoticed, and they are sent - in a roundabout way - to see the Propheseers. There they learn that UnLondon is a city in peril, threatened by the increasingly menacing Smog, a destructive and devour...more

Read Reviews for Un Lun Dun - China Mievelle

RedBen
Premium Review Un Lun Dun - China Mievelle: A tale of two Londons (755 words)
by - written on 16/01/09 (Very useful, 92 readings)
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2007's Un Lun Dun marked China Mieville's first foray into the Young Adult market. Whilst this might suggest a distinct change of pace from his previous, heavier works (and Mieville's toning down of his potentially prohibitive lexicon is certainly testament to this), Un Lun Dun is nevertheless a rich, thematic tale that is both entertaining and thought-provoking, suitable for young and old alike. The story revolves around the actions of two twelve-year-old girls, Zanna and Deeba: a pair of bona fide London girls, inquisitive and streetwise and well attuned to their local environment. Which means that, when certain oddities start to manifest themselves, ...  Read the complete review

dididave
Crowned Review We are off to meet the Wiz! (685 words)
by - written on 23/03/07 (Very useful, 198 readings)
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Londoner Zanna finds herself inextricably drawn into a parallel city called Un-Lun-Dun. With her reluctant friend Deeba also along for the ride, Zanna discovers a city that is as different from her own as anything she could imagine. In Un Lun Dun the garbage is alive, ghosts exist and the government consists of an 'all-knowing' band of Propheseers. However, all is not well in this weird ab-city. An evil force known as Smog is threatening to destroy and devour Un Lun Dun and has ambitious plans to move into Zanna and Deeba's own city. In world that is in desperate need of a hero, can two girls stop the Smog with the help of a half-ghost, a pint of milk and a strangely ...  Read the complete review

 

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