The Last Days of New Paris

The Last Days of New Paris (ISBN 978-0-345-54399-8) is a 2016 fantasy novella by British writer China Miéville.

The book takes place in an alternate history in which surrealist artists join partisans in Paris to fight Nazi groups.

[1][2] The main plot follows Thibaut, a Parisian, in an alternate-history 1950 where World War II is still ongoing and Paris is still occupied by Nazis.

He joins forces with Sam, a photographer, to fight the occupying Nazis in a landscape dominated by manifs, real-world manifestations of surrealist art.

Interstitial chapters follow an America engineer and occultist named Jack Parsons, who visits a group of Marseilles surrealists, including André Breton, in 1941.