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About the product In the gigantic metropolis of New Crobuzon, supposedly emerged from the pen of Kafka and Dickens through the mediation of Bosch and Neil Stevenson, people and beetle-headed khepri, mermaids and aquatic, man-made mutants-converted and people-cacti exist side by side. Everyone is busy with their own business: statues are sculpted from colored saliva, drug dealers sell sleepy dope, the police are chasing dissidents. And the scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is a garuda, devoid of wings — a bird-man from distant deserts — and asks to teach him to fly again. Meanwhile, Isaac’s beetle-headed lover, Lin, gets an equally difficult task: to sculpt a portrait of a powerful mafia leader. Isaac and Lin do not yet know what danger these orders are fraught with — for themselves, the entire city and even the structure of the universe …
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