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The City & the City is a novel by British author China Miéville that follows a wide-reaching murder investigation in two cities that exist side by side, each of whose citizens are forbidden to go into or acknowledge the other city, combining weird fiction with the police procedural.
- China Miéville
- 2009
May 26, 2009 · Two cities, Besźel and Ul Qoma, share a border but are separated by a psychological barrier. When a woman is murdered in Besźel, detectives from both sides must investigate without crossing the line.
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- Hardcover
Apr 27, 2010 · To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen.
- China Miéville
- $14.99
- Del Rey
Feb 18, 2011 · A scanned copy of the 2009 Hugo Award-winning novel by China Miéville, about a murder mystery in a city divided by a border. The book is available for free download and streaming from the Internet Archive.
Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights. Read An Excerpt Listen to a sample from The City & The City
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To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as...
A detective novel set in a world where two cities, Besźel and Ul Qoma, coexist in the same space but are separated by a strict border. The detective investigates the murder of a woman who lived in Ul Qoma and had a connection to a mythical third city, Orciny.
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