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Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, PopSugar, Financial Times, Chicago Review of Books, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Thrillist, Book Riot, National Post (Canada), Kirkus and Publishers Weekly

From the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy comes Jeff VanderMeer''s Borne, a story about two humans and two creatures.

Am I a person? Borne asked me.
Yes, you are a person, I told him. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.

In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Companya biotech firm now derelictand punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick,

Borne

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      Publisher MCD
      Published 27 February 2018
      ISBN-13 9780374537654
      978-0374537654
      ISBN-10 0374537658

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, PopSugar, Financial Times, Chicago Review of Books, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Thrillist, Book Riot, National Post (Canada), Kirkus and Publishers Weekly

      From the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy comes Jeff VanderMeer''s Borne, a story about two humans and two creatures.

      Am I a person? Borne asked me.
      Yes, you are a person, I told him. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.

      In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Companya biotech firm now derelictand punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick,

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