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Un Lun Dun
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Author China Miéville
Illustrator China Miéville
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Young adult fantasy novel
Publisher Macmillan
Publication date January 2007
Pages 522 pp

Un Lun Dun is a young adult fantasy novel by China Miéville, released in 2007. The title is derived from "UnLondon," the name of the alternate realm where the book is set. It also contains illustrations by Miéville. It was first released as a hardback in the United Kingdom in January 2007 by Macmillan Publishers, then in the United States on February 13, 2007 by Del Rey Books. The novel also won the 2008 Locus Award for Young Adult Book.

Plot summary

The book begins with two twelve-year old girls, Zanna and Deeba, who have begun to notice several strange things happening around them, all of them centering on Zanna.

After she and her friends are attacked by dark cloud, Zanna spends the next two nights at Deeba"s house. Deeba is awoken in the middle of the night and spies a moving broken umbrella. The girls follow it into the basement of a building, where they are drawn through a gap between the worlds of London and Un Lun Dun (or UnLondon).

UnLondon is a nonsensical mirror version of London, inhabited by varying creatures and animated items who have been discarded by the inhabitants on London. A boy named Hemi saves them from a roving pile of trash but is later shooed away by the tailor Obaday Fing who reveals that the boy is a ghost who was trying to get close enough to them to possess one of them. In conversation he realizes that Zanna is the "Shwazzy," a prophesied chosen one who is destined to save UnLondon from the Smog - an evil, sentient cloud of pollution.

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