num_pages: 210
description: For readers of George Saunders Kelly Link and Karen Russell This Census Taker is the poignant and uncanny new novella from award-winning and bestselling author China Miville. After witnessing a profoundly traumatic event a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly deranged parent. When a stranger knocks on his door the boy senses that his days of isolation are overbut by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? Is he the boys friend? His enemy? Or something altogether other?
language: English
title: This Census-Taker
publisher: Del Rey