Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a World Fantasy award, and a BSFA Award.
Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other.
'There is no one else writing stuff like this' - Dazed
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.
With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, the multi-award-winning The City & The City by China Miéville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
'As intelligent as he is original' - The Guardian
| ISBN: | 9781035060245 |
| Publication date: | 6th February 2025 |
| Author: | China Miéville |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Genres: |
Urban fantasy Street fiction / urban fiction Crime and mystery: police procedural Narrative theme: Politics Narrative theme: Sense of place Speculative fiction |
Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a World Fantasy award, and a BSFA Award.
Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other.
'There is no one else writing stuff like this' - Dazed
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.
With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, the multi-award-winning The City & The City by China Miéville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
'As intelligent as he is original' - The Guardian
The City & The City features in the following genres: Urban fantasy, Street fiction / urban fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Speculative fiction
The City & The City is available in Paperback
The City & The City was written by China Miéville and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
The City & The City has 384 pages
Yes it is part of Picador Collection series
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