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Description

What is Un Lun Dun? It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people, too–including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas; Obaday Fing, a tailor whose head... read more

Memorable Quotes

  • “'Ha! They've done a good job making people believe that those hippy refugees in the zoos are normal giraffes. Next you'll tell me that they've got long necks so they can reach high leaves!'”
    Conductor Jones

First Sentence

In an unremarkable room, in a nondescript building, a man sat working on very non-nondescript theories.

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  1. China Mieville (Author)
 

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