This Census-Taker Author:China Mieville 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 Miéville. — 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 strange... more »r knocks on his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation are over -- but by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? Is he the boy's friend? His enemy? Or something altogether other?« less