Sunday, October 16, 2016

China Miéville's six favorite books

China Miéville is the award-winning author of The City & the City, Perdido Street Station, and other books. One of his six favorite books, as shared at The Week magazine:
White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

Did we really need another haunted-house book? It turns out we did. Oyeyemi's bravura work combines sincere respect for this narrative tradition with a radical modern take that never diminishes the fear a literary haunting should evoke. Very much the opposite.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue