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Title: The Last Days of New Paris
Author: China Miéville
Narrator: Ralph Lister
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-23-17
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: History, European
Publisher's Summary:
A thriller of a war that never was - of survival in an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new.
It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world for ever.
In 1950, a lone surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict and the streets are stalked by living images and texts - and by the forces of hell. To escape the city, Thibaut must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.
But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties - to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.
Members Reviews:
I've never read China Miéville until this book, and ...
I've never read China Miéville until this book, and I've got to say, I found The Last Days of New Paris one of the most unique and entertaining pieces I've read this year. I don't know much about surrealist art, outside of a forced university art course, but that's not even required here. Step into a post-WW2 Paris where the world is not as we know it; where art lives and Nazis bring to fruition their occult fascinations.
A return to form for Mieville: a ripping yarn for lovers of subversive art.
This is a nice return to form for Mieville, after the relative disappointment of This Census-Taker. It's not on the level of his best work - such as Period Street Station, The City and The City, Kraken, UnLunDun, Embassytown - but it's a ripping yarn that should do a good job reminding his readers (or interesting them) in Surrealist art as radical action. I'm particularly pleased that his "Manifs" come not only from the standard guys (Breton, Duchamp) but also women (Dora Maar, Lenora Carrington) and people of color (Aime and Suzanne Cesaire). This link makes a good visual companion to the book: [...]
Another beauty from Mieville
Extraordinary, surreal, and absolutely beautiful, a literary work that I'll be chewing on for months and will read again without a doubt. The only detraction from the story -- the potency of a few provocative and poetic images is undermined by direct explanation. There's a lot to digest regardless, but some of the joy was lost in those few telling moments.
Five Stars
love this concept and story
New weird, meet Surrealism
Fans of mieville will rejoice at the author's return to longer manifestations of fiction. Not quite Bas-lag but not quite king rat, either. Rather, this tale seems to fall somewhere in between, as mieville once again seamlessly weaves untold fantasies with the fabric of reality.
