King Rat

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China Miéville: King Rat (2000, Tom Doherty Associates)

318 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2000 by Tom Doherty Associates.

ISBN:
978-0-312-89072-8
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OCLC Number:
45553861

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A London man is enrolled by the King of Rats to assassinate the Pied Piper of Hamelin who dethroned him. The man is Saul, whose rat mother joined humanity, making him immune to the piper's call. In his rat persona Saul eats garbage and climbs walls.

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Subjects

  • Pied Piper of Hamelin (Legendary character) -- Fiction
  • Young men -- Fiction
  • Revenge -- Fiction
  • Rats -- Fiction