num_pages: 300
description: Citizens of a landlocked city celebrate the sea. There is the tang of salt in the air, and, though surrounded by desert, it is a well-watered municipality. Every 12 years, the ceremony of hanging and stuffing the Iron Fish magically alters the layout of the "bubble city" - but not its isolation.
language: English
title: City of the Iron Fish
publisher: HarperCollins