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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Quercus
Publication date
May 3, 2016
Pages
286
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781681445342
ISBN-10
1681445344
Dimensions
1.25 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.05 lbs.
Original list price
$26.99
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth) | The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1) | Too Like the Lightning | Uprooted | The Ballad of Black Tom | The Obelisk Gate | A Gathering of Shadows | Satin Island | The Fifth Season
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth) | The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1) | Too Like the Lightning | Uprooted | The Ballad of Black Tom | The Obelisk Gate | A Gathering of Shadows | Satin Island | The Fifth Season
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: After the end of a brutal civil war, London is divided, with slums standing next to a walled city of elites. Monk-like masters are selected for special schooling and shut away for decades, learning to write beautiful compositions for the chimes, played citywide morning and night, to mute memory and keep the citizens trapped in ignorance.
A young orphan named Simon arrives in London with nothing but the vague sense of a half-forgotten promise, to locate someone. What he finds is a new family--a gang of scavengers that patrols the underbelly of the city looking for valuable metal to sell. Drawn in by an enigmatic and charismatic leader, a blind young man named Lucien with a gift for song, Simon forgets entirely what originally brought him to the place he has now made his home.
In this alternate London, the past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and before is considered "blasphony." But Simon has a unique gift--the gift of retaining memories--that will lead him to discover a great injustice and take him far beyond the meager life as a member of Lucien's gang. Before long he will be engaged in an epic struggle for justice, love, and freedom.
The Chimes is an impressive work of speculative fiction, an imaginative adventure elegantly told. The Chimes reveals the human capacity to create both beauty and terror, in art and in life.
A young orphan named Simon arrives in London with nothing but the vague sense of a half-forgotten promise, to locate someone. What he finds is a new family--a gang of scavengers that patrols the underbelly of the city looking for valuable metal to sell. Drawn in by an enigmatic and charismatic leader, a blind young man named Lucien with a gift for song, Simon forgets entirely what originally brought him to the place he has now made his home.
In this alternate London, the past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and before is considered "blasphony." But Simon has a unique gift--the gift of retaining memories--that will lead him to discover a great injustice and take him far beyond the meager life as a member of Lucien's gang. Before long he will be engaged in an epic struggle for justice, love, and freedom.
The Chimes is an impressive work of speculative fiction, an imaginative adventure elegantly told. The Chimes reveals the human capacity to create both beauty and terror, in art and in life.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Quercus (May 3, 2016)
9781681445342 | details & prices | 286 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $26.99
About: After the end of a brutal civil war, London is divided, with slums standing next to a walled city of elites.
About: After the end of a brutal civil war, London is divided, with slums standing next to a walled city of elites.
from Hodder & Stoughton (February 12, 2015)
9781444794526 | details & prices | 291 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $23.50
Paperback
from Hodder & Stoughton (October 1, 2015)
from Gardners Books (February 12, 2015)
9781444794533 | details & prices | 400 pages | List price $23.65
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