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    "title": "The Iron Council",
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    "description": "Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Mi\u00e9ville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon\u2014this time, decades later.\n\nIt is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming city to the brink. A mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places.\n\nIn desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope.\n\nIn the blood and violence of New Crobuzon\u2019s most dangerous hour, there are whispers. It is the time of the iron council. . . .\n\nThe bold originality that broke Mi\u00e9ville out as a new force of the genre is here once more in Iron Council: the voluminous, lyrical novel that is destined to seal his reputation as perhaps the edgiest mythmaker of the day.",
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