The City and the City

✍ Scribed by Mieville, China

• Book ID: 110482606
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 228 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers
his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in an
enthralling city that is unlike any other - real or imagined

When
the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying
city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine
case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he
probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and
more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts
him and those he cares for in danger.

Borlú must travel to the
only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no
other. It is a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in
perception, a seeing of the unseen, a journey to Beszel's equal, rival,
and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma.

With 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.