The scar

Bellis Gladwin runs from the giant metropolis of new Crobuzon; experienced linguist, she finds a translator on a ship in Nova Hesperium. But the ship was captured by pirates, and a new life begins Bellis croutonboy not in the distant colonies, and the Armada is made up of thousands and thousands of ships floating pirate city, for centuries plying the Swollen oceans and managed a couple of flagellant, known as the Lovers. Like new Crobuzon, Armada is populated by people and euchologia khepri, mermaids and mermen, a man-made mutants and altered humans-cacti and stupidly and vampires. Refusing to accept that never going to see his hometown, Bellis is ready for everything just to find out the classified nature of the project, on which work the doctor of biology Johannes Terfly, the best hunter in all the Bas-Lag Tintinnabulum, Lovers and their bodyguard Uther doul...