"Beauty will be convulsive. . . ."

1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andr Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever.

1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts--and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.

But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties--to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.

Praise for The Last Days of New Paris

"Beautiful, stunningly realized . . . The Last Days of New Paris] is a brief vacation in alien latitudes, a midnight layover in an imaginary place."--NPR

"A thoughtful, highbrow novella . . . Mi ville's self-assured style offers up a strong sense of humanity, while the strange Surrealist monsters give Last Days a fun and complementary mad-science component."--USA Today

" A] testament to the necessary, progressive power of art . . . Both moving and disturbingly timely."--Newsday

"A novel both unhinged and utterly compelling, a kind of guerrilla warfare waged by art itself, combining both meticulous historical research and Mi ville's unparalleled inventiveness."--Chicago Tribune

"An extraordinarily original work that foregrounds Mieville's considerable ingenuity and innovation."--The Millions

"Hauntingly poetic, strangely beautiful, and erratically intense."--San Francisco Book Review

"Dazzling . . . quite a feat."--The Guardian