The experience of a subcontinental-origin person in London. Using economically-lower countries as dumping ground for waste. Like the best of message fiction, the messages come in to the reader subconsciously, never becoming even a slight bit preachy and never interfering with the story. Would you consider the audio edition of Un Lun Dun to be better than the print version? The world of UnLondun is populated by astonishing frights and delights that will thrill the imagination.Įxcellent! This is how a message novel should be They are joined in their quest by a motley band of UnLondun locals, including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas, Obaday Fing, a couturier whose head is an enormous pincushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle. Guided by a magic book that can’t quite get its facts straight, and pursued by Hemi the half-ghost boy, the girls set out to stop the poisonous cloud before it burns everything in its path. UnLondun is under siege by the sinister Smog and its stink-junkie slaves it is a city awaiting its hero. Here, discarded umbrellas stalk with spidery menace, carnivorous giraffes roam the streets, and a jungle sprawls beyond the door of an ordinary house. Zanna and Deeba are two girls leading ordinary lives, until they stumble into the world of UnLondun, an urban Wonderland where all the lost and broken things of London end up… and some of its lost and broken people too. The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew tinny…. As the light lessened, so did the sound.ĭeeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster.
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