This Census Taker

Author: China Miéville

Format: Paperback

In a remote hilltop house, a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event and tries, without success, to escape. Left with an increasingly unstable parent, he longs for safety and for the company of the other children in the town below.

When a stranger finally knocks at his door, the boy hopes his isolation may be ending, but the man's meticulous records and probing questions raise unsettling doubts about who he really is. A novella of memory and identity from China Miéville, filled with beauty, terror and strangeness.

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