Winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award 2010.
A strange and compelling murder mystery set in a place like no other. In a unique and seemingly impossible land, two separate cities share the same space at the same time, the inhabitants passing every day and deliberately not seeing each other. The greatest crime is ‘Breach’, moving illegally from one city to the other, which has dire consequences. Citizens live in fear of accidentally committing it but deliberate Breach is swiftly detected and severely punished, so when a dead body from one city turns up in another it causes a special kind of headache for Inspector Borlú who must investigate without Breaching himself. A startling, intense and enthralling read from an award-winning author who has created, in his dark, detached, paranoid world, a truly amazing place.
Comparison: William Gibson, Neil Gaiman.
Maxim Jakubowski's view...
His forte is the lavish descriptions of weird, surrealistic cities and the teeming, bizarre life that inhabits them, but his latest THE CITY AND THE CITY is almost a crime novel, as an investigator delves into a murder and a cross between Chandler and Kafka arises.
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When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Besźel, 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.
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.
The City and the City features in the following genres: Fantasy, Thriller and Suspense, Science Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The City and the City is available in Paperback, Hardback
The City and the City was written by China Mieville and published by Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
The City and the City has 372 pages
