Présentation de l'éditeur
El Iskandria is the most famous and cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Egypt in the 21st century. Ashraf Bey travels there to escape an American prison, but ends up the main suspect in a murder, hated by the woman he is supposed to marry and responsible for the welfare of a nine-year-old cousin...
In a world where Germany won the First World War, in a world where the Ottoman Empire still dominates the Middle East, in a world where Zeppelins drone overhead...Ashraf Bey has to survive and discover answers to questions about himself and the city he has come to live in. The answers may be factually accurate, but are they true?
Revue de presse
* 'Grimwood packs every sentence with so much meaning that you'll want to go back... dazzling, seductive and pointed' INDEPENDENT
* 'Unless William Gibson releases a new novel before 2001, the smart money is on this being the finest SF novel of the year' THE LIST (EDINBURGH)
* 'Dazzling panache and an acute satirical eye' THE TIMES
* 'Grimwood has so much energy and such a talent - he carries you along relentlessly, like a crazed hijacker' LOCUS
* 'A prose so polished that everything appears to be reflected in the chromed bars of a Harley-Davidson . . . Grimwood's novel is big, bad, nasty and streetwise - but for all that very, very affecting. Buy it, read it and see for yourselves' INTERZONE
* 'Fiction so trendy you can wear it' LOCUS
* 'Vivid gore, sex and high-octane adventure. This is terrific stuff' THE BOOKSELLER
* 'This is British SF that's not afraid to take on the Yanks at their own game and, quite frankly, it kicks butt. . . Five stars' SFX
* 'Raymond Chandler for the 21st century' ESQUIRE
* 'Pashazade is the author's finest yet' STARLOG
* '... his best work to date... this is also a deeply original work, carrying within it the seed of Grimwood's vision of an alternate future which I feel sure will blossom and bloom' ALIEN ONLINE
* 'Grimwood has successfully mingled fantasy with reality to make an unusual, believable and absorbing mystery' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
* 'One of the leading lights on the British science fiction scene' SUNDAY TRIBUNE (DUBLIN)
* 'A tremendous read that is every bit as good as you would expect from a writer of Grimwood's standing…this really is essential reading' ENIGMA
* 'Read it at the first available opportunity' OUTLAND
* 'A novel which pulls you in and doesn't let go... If this is SF, then bring it on. I can hardly wait for the next instalment.'
SOUTH WALES ECHO
* 'A virtuoso head-on collision between futur-noir cyberSurgery and blasphemous ghoulish antiquity - in full detail' Colin Greenland, bestselling author of TAKE BACK PLENTY
* 'A future-shock blizzard' Stephen Baxter, bestselling author of THE TIME SHIPS and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award
Biographie de l'auteur
Jon Courtenay Grimwood was born in Malta and grew up in the Far East, Britain and Scandinavia. He also writes for magazines and newspapers including the GUARDIAN and SFX.
