The City & The City

by China Mieville

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With an introduction by novelist Kamila Shamsie.

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 George Orwell, the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Miéville is a fantasy murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.

  • ISBN10 150987058X
  • ISBN13 9781509870585
  • Publish Date 12 July 2018 (first published 1 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 January 2023
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Picador
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 400
  • Language English