The Total Bummer Book Club: The Scar

The Scar by China Mieville

 

"A ship bearing prisoners and several persons fleeing New Crobuzon for their own dire reasons stops to pick up a mysterious figure, who has the course altered to return to New Crobuzon. Later, Bellis Coldwine is writing a letter, and in the holds, prisoner Tanner Sack is telling a cabin boy stories, when the ship is overtaken and captured by pirates from the great, cobbled-together floating city of Armada. Only the fleeing passengers and the prisoners are spared, on the assumption that they have no lingering loyalty to New Crobuzon. Wrong supposition about Bellis, who can't be reconciled to life in Armada, which, when the sinister plans of the scarred Lovers, who lead the greater part of the place, start coming to light, just gets stranger and more dangerous. This complicated fantasy seemingly could go in any number of directions and doesn't end up in quite the places a reader expects it to. Armada, a vibrant creation, with the uncertainties of its press-ganged residents and the machinations of its politics, makes this compelling reading."  - Booklist
 

The Total Bummer Book Club will be meeting at Longfellow Books on Wednesday, October 5th at 7:00 pm to discuss China Mieville's's The Scar.  Come pick up your copy with the book group 20% discount and join us for an evening filled with fun, books and, as always, refreshments!