King Rat

Book • 1998

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Mentioned by

Jesse Dukes

as a novel one might find at an old beach house.

Mentioned by

Ryan Williams

as part of James Clavell's “Asia House series” and is set in a Japanese prisoner camp.

Mentioned by

Margaret Kiljoy

as an excellent story by Karen Joy Fowler that Sophia Samatar studied and which also uses a mixture of realism and folklore.

Mentioned by

Jacob Dallas-Main

when discussing his early works and his transition to Marxism.

Mentioned as

China Mieville

's first novel, a supernatural thriller set in London in the mid-90s.

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