City & the City

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 Borlu 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. Borlu 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 Mieville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.

Winner of Locus Award Best Fantasy Novel 2010 (UK)
Winner of The Kitschies Red Tentacle Award for Best Novel 2010 (UK)
Winner of The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2010 (UK)
Winner of BSFA Award for Best Novel 2010 (UK)
Winner of Hugo Award For Best Novel 2010 (United States)
Winner of World Fantasy Awards Best Novel 2010 (UK)
Short-listed for Nebula Award Best Novel 2010 (UK)

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eville - twice winner of the British Fantasy Award and three times winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award - is head and shoulders above other writers in this genre. The Times One of our most important writers. Independent on Sunday eville is gifted with an incomparable visionary imagination. Financial Times You can't talk about eville without using the word "brilliant". -- Ursula Le Guin Guardian

China Mieville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell and Philip K. Dick. His novel Embassytown was a first and widely praised foray into science fiction.

In the moment I woke it was without a sense of time having passed. I closed my eyes in the crosshatched streets of the Old Towns; I opened them again and gasped for breath . . . 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 Borl

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