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Amazon.com Review The City & The City . Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbanist), but from book to book he's tried on different genres, and here he's fully hard-boiled, stripping down to a seen-it-all detective's voice that's wonderfully appropriate for this story of seen and unseen. His detective is Inspector Tyador Borlu, a cop in Beszel whose investigation of the murder of a young foreign woman takes him back and forth across the highly policed border to Ul Qoma to uncover a crime that threatens the delicate balance between the cities and, perhaps more so, Borlu's own dissolving sense of identity. In his tale of two cities, Mieville creates a world both fantastic and unsettlingly familiar, whose mysteries don't end with the solution of a murder. --_Tom Nissley_ From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Better known for New Weird fantasies (_Perdido Street Station_, etc.), bestseller Miéville offers an outstanding take on police procedurals with this barely speculative novel. Twin southern European cities Beszel and Ul Qoma coexist in the same physical location, separated by their citizens' determination to see only one city at a time. Inspector Tyador Borlú of

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Author

China Miéville, China Miéville

Publisher

Del Rey; Del Rey Ballantine Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781448744268

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.91 / 5 (30,371 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14