Reissue published simultaneously in hardcover by MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux and in paperback by Picador.
Originally published in 2003 by Night Shade Books.
Summary
"The first novel (originally published in 2003) by Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation, including approximately 50,000 words of new material exclusive to this edition"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Veniss underground -- The sea, Mendeho, and moonlight -- Detectives and cadavers -- Balzac's war -- A heart for Lucretia -- Three days in a border town.