{"product_id":"three-moments-of-an-explosion-book-china-miville-9781101884782","title":"Three Moments of an Explosion","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post - \u003c\/i\u003eNPR - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian - Kirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e The fiction of multiple award-winning author China Mi ville 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse's bones--designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOf such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collection--many published here for the first time. By turns speculative, satirical, and heart-wrenching, fresh in form and language, and featuring a cast of damaged yet hopeful seekers who come face-to-face with the deep weirdness of the world--and at times the deeper weirdness of themselves--\u003ci\u003eThree Moments of an Explosion\u003c\/i\u003e is a fitting showcase for one of literature's most original voices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThree Moments of an Explosion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChina Mi ville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThree Moments of an Explosion, \u003c\/i\u003ecrowds virtuosity into every sentence.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You can't talk about  China] Mi ville without using the word 'brilliant.' . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing.\u003cb\u003e--Ursula K. Le Guin, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A] gripping collection . . . Mi ville expertly mixes science fiction, fantasy and surrealism. . . . Amid the longer stories are more cerebral, poetic flash pieces that will haunt the reader beyond the pages of this exceptional book.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The stories shine . . . with a winking brilliance.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mind-bending excursions into the fantastic.\u003cb\u003e--NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThree Moments of an Explosion\u003c\/i\u003e is a book filled with fabulous oddities.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mi ville moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism. . . . His characters, whether ordinary witnesses to extraordinary events or lunatics operating out of inexplicable compulsions, are invariably well drawn and compelling.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49700665819409,"sku":"CIN1101884789G","price":5.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49884143321361,"sku":"CIN1101884789VG","price":5.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51019563237649,"sku":"NIN9781101884782","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423309037841,"sku":"CIN1101884789A","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1101884789.jpg?v=1751368109","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/three-moments-of-an-explosion-book-china-miville-9781101884782","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}