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Kraken : an anatomy

A contemporary fantasy set in present-day London finds people flocking to a British Museum exhibit of a giant squid that is stolen by magical criminals, a crime that propels young curator Billy into a supernatural underworld.

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  • "Hauptbeschreibung Tief im Forschungstrakt des Natural History Museum lagert ein außergewöhnliches Ausstellungsstück - eins der Sorte, die man normalerweise im Leben nicht zu Gesicht bekommt: ein perfekt erhaltener Riesenkalmar. Doch was hat es zu bedeuten, dass dieses Geschöpf plötzlich spurlos verschwindet? Der Kurator Billy Harrow begibt sich Hals über Kopf auf die Suche durch ein London voller Kulte, die einander bekriegen, surrealer Magie, Verrat und Meuchelmördern. Möglicherweise ist die Riesenkrake, die er im Museum aufbewahrt hatte mehr als nur eine biologische Rarität. Denn."
  • ""En lo más remoto del ala de investigación del museo de Historia Natural hay un preciado espécimen, algo único e insólito: un calamar gigante que se conserva en perfecto estado. Pero ¿qué consecuencias acarreará la repentina e inverosímil desaparición del animal? Para el conservador del museo, Billy Harrow, será el primer paso hacia un salto sin red a un Londres de cultos enfrentados, magia surrealista, apóstatas y asesinos. La criatura que ha estado custodiando podría ser algo más que una rareza biológica: hay quien asegura que se trata de un dios. Un dios que algunos esperan que acabe con el mundo." --p. [4] of cover."
  • "A contemporary fantasy set in present-day London finds people flocking to a British Museum exhibit of a giant squid that is stolen by magical criminals, a crime that propels young curator Billy into a supernatural underworld."@en
  • "BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Mi?ville?s Embassytown.With this outrageous new novel, China Mi?ville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this?or any other?year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about?or prevent?the End of All Things.In the Darwin Centre at London?s Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre?s prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux?better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy?s tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air.As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens?human and otherwise?are adept in magic and murder.There is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanity?and beyond. There is the criminal mastermind known as the Tattoo, a merciless maniac inked onto the flesh of a hapless victim. There is the FSRC?the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit?a branch of London?s finest that fights sorcery with sorcery. There is Wati, a spirit from ancient Egypt who leads a ragtag union of magical familiars. There are the Londonmancers, who read the future in the city?s entrails. There is Grisamentum, London?s greatest wizard, whose shadow lingers long after his death. And then there is Goss and Subby, an ageless old man and a cretinous boy who, together, constitute a terrifying?yet darkly charismatic?demonic duo.All of them?and others?are in pursuit of Billy, who inadvertently holds the key to the missing squid, an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be."@en
  • "Tief im Forschungstrakt des Natural History Museum lagert ein aussergewöhnliches Ausstellungsstück: ein perfekt erhaltener Riesenkalmar. Doch was hat es zu bedeuten, dass dieses Geschöpf plötzlich spurlos verschwindet? Der Kurator Billy Harrow begibt sich Hals über Kopf auf die Suche - quer durch London, in dem dunkle Kulte, Magie und Meuchelmörder am Werke sind."
  • "Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be."
  • "Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be."@en
  • "Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, a perfect and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears? For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins."
  • "When a nine-meter-long dead squid is stolen, tank and all, from a London museum, curator Billy Harrow finds himself swept up in a world he didn't know existed: one of worshippers of the giant squid, animated golems, talking tattoos, and animal familiars on strike. Forced on the lam with a renegade kraken cultist and stalked by cops and crazies, Billy finds his quest to recover the squid sidelined by questions as to what force may now be unleashed on an unsuspecting world."@en

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  • "Suspense fiction, English"@en
  • "English fiction"
  • "Fantasy romány"
  • "Fantasy novels"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Science Fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction, English"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Kraken : une anatomie"
  • "Kraken : an anatomy"
  • "Kraken : an anatomy"@en
  • "Kraken an anatomy"@en
  • "Der Krake Roman"
  • "Kraken / China Miéville ; traducción de Beatriz Ruiz Jara"
  • "Kraken"@hu
  • "Kraken"@es
  • "Kraken : An anatomy"
  • "Kraken"@pl
  • "Kraken"@en
  • "Kraken"

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