{"product_id":"2940169467444","title":"Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories","description":"\u003cp\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¿ The fiction of multiple award-winning author China Miéville 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100434809072,"sku":"2940169467444","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169467444_p0.jpg?v=1763683568","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169467444","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}