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Item Details
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THE WINDUP GIRL
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| By: |
Paolo Bacigalupi, Paolo Bacigalupi |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0748127143 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780748127146 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
21 October, 2010 |
| Edition: |
Digital original |
| Description: |
One of Time Magazine's top 10 novels for 2010 and winner of four major international SF awards - an action-packed adventure and a politically acute commentary on the near-future. |
| Synopsis: |
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the windup girl - the beautiful and enigmatic Emiko - now abandoned to the slums. She is one of the New People, bred to suit the whims of the rich. Engineered as slaves, soldiers and toys, they are the new underclass in a chilling near future where oil has run out, calorie companies dominate nations and bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.And as Lake becomes increasingly obsessed with Emiko, conspiracies breed in the heat and political tensions threaten to spiral out of control. Businessmen and ministry officials, wealthy foreigners and landless refugees all have their own agendas. But no one anticipates the devastating influence of the Windup Girl. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Orbit |
| Prizes: |
Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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