In A Strange Room Viking King Rat marks out China

King Rat marks out China Miville as an author to be watched The Times Brings together elements of fantasy

dark and erudite

a cadre of menacing and well-armed mercenaries (possibly employed by one of the world's major religions)

is the investigation taking him further away from commitment to the woman he loves

In A Strange Room Viking King Rat marks out China'Beautiful. Strikingly conceived and hauntingly written.' Jan Morris, Guardian Damon Galgut's masterful novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys. A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little purpose, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he knows that he is drifting, he is unable to settle. It is as if, without these