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<strong>Praise for <em>Hummingbird Salamander</em>:</strong>
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<p>‘<strong>Every now and again a writer reimagines noir fiction for their generation. Now it’s the turn of Jeff VanderMeer… He proves more than up to the task</strong> … a gripping kick-the-door-down investigation of wildlife smuggling that expands maniacally to include all that our planet has lost as the sixth extinction gathers pace … This is natural history as police procedural; and life on Earth as the scene of a crime’ <em>The Times</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>An enigmatic eco-thriller</strong> that delivers on the subject of worlds – inner worlds such as the biosphere – that are coming apart’ <em>Observer</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>VanderMeer is utterly confident and convincing in his storytelling</strong>… The action is delivered in short, punchy prose that builds up its own irresistible rhythm as the book progresses to a climax that deals with the possible end of the world, yet does so with nuance and thought-provoking speculation … <strong>A terrific piece of work</strong>’ <em>Big Issue</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>A violent, darkly witty adventure, haunted by the threat of looming environmental apocalypse</strong> … while there's an urgency and a justified anger here, there's also a necessary glimmer of hope, a suggestion that perhaps we're not all completely doomed. Well, not yet, anyway.’ Will Salmon, <em>SFX Magazine</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>An existential mindfuck cleverly disguised as a thriller</strong> … Visionary, dark, beautiful, and strange, that rare novel that coaxes you into imagining the unimaginable’ Kristen Roupenian, author of<em> You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories</em></p>
<p>‘Quirky, compelling … <strong>The engine that drives it is speculation about the future not only of civilisation, but of all life on this planet.</strong>’ <em>Guardian</em></p>
<p>‘Harrowing, gripping, and profound. It's <strong>both a thriller and a requiem for a disappearing world</strong>. I expect this novel will haunt me for a long time’ Emily St. John Mandel, author of <em>The Glass Hotel</em></p>

’Frankly superb. This pummelling eco-thriller camouflages the true ‘understory’ of societal collapse, and glows in the dark with original thinking’ David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A speculative thriller about the end of all things, set in the Pacific Northwest. A harrowing descent into a secret world. 'Jane Smith' receives an unexplained envelope containing the key to a storage unit. And inside that storage unit is a taxidermy hummingbird and directions to a taxidermy salamander. Somehow, this bizarre treasure hunt, that Jane never expected or asked for, sets in motion a series of events that quickly put her and her family in danger. As she desperately seeks answers, she discovers time is running out – for her and possibly for the world. ‘This is climate fiction at its most urgent and gripping’ The New York Times ‘Visionary, dark, beautiful, and strange, that rare novel that coaxes you into imagining the unimaginable’ Kristen Roupenian, author of You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories ‘Harrowing, gripping, and profound. It's both a thriller and a requiem for a disappearing world’ Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel
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• Vandermeer’s reputation continues to grow. Annihilation was an enormous success on Netflix, leading to a massive up-tick in sales of the Area X trilogy, and Borne was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke award. He has been profiled in The New York Times and continues to receive praise from some of the biggest names in, and outside of, the scifi community. • Vandermeer has an incredible list of fans and advocates including Colson Whitehead and Stephen King. • This novel sees him break from hard sci-fi, and take a more satirical tone, drawing comparisons with George Saunders. Competition: the southern reach trilogy;annihilation;acceptance;authority;dead astronauts;borne;a river called time;luckenbooth;the living sea of waking dreams;light perpetual;girl A;ready player two;dune;cloud atlas. by;courttia newland;richard flanagan;francis spufford;david mitchell
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008299378
Publisert
2022-04-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Fourth Estate Ltd
Vekt
260 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year’s-best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.