“The Rouse, commended by the judges for breaking "most explosively with expectation", is the winner of the annual prize that celebrates fiction at its most novel.”
“China Miéville was awarded the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize at a ceremony at Foyles in central London. At over 1,200 pages long, The Rouse is the longest novel to win the Prize to date.”
“In a review for the Guardian, Stuart Kelly called it “maximalist, dense, disorienting and discomfiting”, arguing that Miéville deserves comparison with Roberto Bolaño and Mircea Cărtărescu, and describing the book as “affecting, intelligent and, in more than one place, very, very frightening”
