Borne (#1)

Author: Jeff VanderMeer

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780008159214
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
  • : HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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  • : December 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.98
  • : February 2018
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Description

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Alex Garland.


'Neither of us had control of our monsters anymore'. In a ruined city of the future, Rachel scavenges a strange creature from the fur of a despotic bear.She names him Borne.He reminds her of her homeland lost to rising seas, but her lover Wick is intent on rendering him down as raw material for the special drugs he sells. Nothing is quite what it seems, and if Wick is hiding secrets, so too is Rachel - and Borne most of all.

Author description

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor, and the author most recently of the New York Timesbestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales and multiple year's-best anthologies. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.