This Census-Taker - Hardcover

Praise for China Mieville
Even when he is orbiting somewhere in a galaxy too far away for normal human comprehension . . . Mieville is dazzling. "The New York Times"
[Mieville s] wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing. Ursula K. Le Guin"

Advance praise for "This Census-Taker"
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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"
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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"
Praise for China Mieville
Even when he is orbiting somewhere in a galaxy too far away for normal human comprehension . . . Mieville is dazzling. "The New York Times"
[Mieville s] wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing. Ursula K. Le Guin"

China Mieville 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, it s like he s 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

[Mieville s] 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"

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 Miéville.