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AudioBook information:
Author: China Miéville
Narrated by: Colin Mace, Emma Spurgin Hussey, China Miéville
Release date: September 15, 2026
Audiobook Duration: 40 h 43 min
Summary: From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making—a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy.
Maur’s life has been shaped by loss: an apparently ordinary tragedy. But in its aftermath arise deeper, stranger questions. Their answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur’s obsessions and who is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces.
So begins a book unlike any other: at once an encyclopaedic and multitudinous saga of a bloody century and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets, and secrets—and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery.
Reviews:
“The Rouse is a stirring, moving family saga and a dizzying exegesis of the violent and virulent second half of the twentieth century as well a lament for the brutalist age it has spawned. Complex, consuming, thrilling, terrifying, a feast of language and ideas . . . I could go on and on. The Rouse is a magisterial wonder.”—Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
“At once the most poetic horror and the most fearsome historical novel in contemporary letters . . . There is simply no equivalent to Miéville’s achievement.”—Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox
“An extraordinary tour de force, poetic, complex and poignant . . . a true masterpiece of the weird.”—Adrian Tchaikovsky, bestselling author of Children of Time
“[An] incredibly ambitious combination of history and the supernatural . . . Miéville renders the winding, complex plot that ties these two characters together in characteristically robust prose and provides a satisfying ending for readers who persevere. Fans will not be disappointed.”—Publishers Weekly
About the Author:
China Miéville is a New York Times bestselling author of fiction and nonfiction. His novels include The City & The City, Embassytown, and Perdido Street Station. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction, he has won the World Fantasy, Hugo, and Arthur C. Clarke awards, among others. His nonfiction includes a study of international law and a history of the Russian Revolution.