Author : China Mieville
Citation : Mieville, China. Un lun dun. New
York : Del Rey, 2007.
A twelve-year-old heroine Zanna and her friend Deeba find a secret door leading out of London and into a strange city, Un Lun Dun. It is a city awaiting its hero whose coming was predicted long time ago and happened to be set down for all time in the pages of a talking book. In the setting, the city is a place where words are alive; a jungle exists unobserved behind the door of an ordinary house, carnivorous giraffes walk stiffly down the streets and a dark cloud dreams about burning the world. In short, through the looking glass, Un Lun Dun is an urban Wonderland of uncanny delights where all the lost and broking thing of London end up, including Brokkenbroll, a boss of the broken umbrellas; and Obaday Fing, a tailor whose head is a gigantic pin-cushion and Curdle. The compelling style and the fantasy journey of this book are combination of unexpected opportunities for heroism and magic. The unexpected twist will make readers to keep turning the pages until they have reached the end.
