End Of The World Blues (Gollancz S.F.)

End Of The World Blues (Gollancz S.F.)

by JonCourtenayGrimwood (Author)

Synopsis

Kit Nouveau didn't escape himself when he flew to Japan. He runs a bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo and is having an affair with the wife of a High Yakusa ganglord. All things considered being held up at gunpoint isn't a complete shock. The pale girl in the black cloak appearing from nowhere and punching an ivory spike into the man's head on the other hand ...Nijie has stolen fifteen million dollars, she's on the run, she's just killed a man and she has a cat who knows more than it should. It's a lot to deal with when you haven't even left school. But Nijie is really Lady Neku. And it is time for her to stop mewling in the darkness. And suddenly, the girl who became Lady Neku understands she's never really been anyone else. And in a sentient castle at the end of world Lady Neku otherwise known as Baroness Nawa-no-ukiyo, Countess High Strange and chatelaine of Schloss Omga realizes that a man called Kit has stolen some of her memories.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 09 Aug 2007

ISBN 10: 0575079533
ISBN 13: 9780575079533
Book Overview: The stunning new novel from the critically acclaimed master of literary SF.

Media Reviews
Fast yet humane, hip yet bizarre, futuristic yet embedded in the absolute present moment of the world, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's novels read like thrillers but maintain a kind of caring irony and clarity of political vision which not only make him one of the best of the new U.K. SF writers but suggest new directions for every kind of writing. --M. John Harrison, author of Light Defiantly individual, and works in that interesting margin where myth, futurism, literature and pop culture all interbreed. -- Times, UK Grimwood's latest tale reads as if Kurt Vonnegut were writing manga for the producers of Doctor Who, -- Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
Jon Courtenay Grimwood is a fulltime writer. He has also been an editor of and writer for various men's magazines. He reviews SF for The Guardian.