Three Moments of an Explosion

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR •  The Guardian • Kirkus Reviews  • The fiction of multiple award–winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it in provocative, unexpected ways.   London awakes one morning to find itse