The City & The City: A Novel
📚 Why We Recommend ItA murdered woman in Beszel’s ruins should be just another case. But for Inspector Tyador Borlú, it’s a crack in the world—one that leads him into the shadow between two cities.
Beszel and Ul Qoma exist side by side, yet apart. You don’t just cross their border—you unlearn the habit of “unseeing” what’s right in front of you. To solve the killing, Borlú must step from Beszel’s decay into Ul Qoma’s vibrancy, navigating nationalists who’d burn the other city to ash, unificationists who dream of erasing the line, and something far more terrifying lurking between them.
China Miéville turns a crime story into a haunting meditation on perception. The real mystery isn’t who killed the woman, but how a world teaches itself not to see what’s there. Blending the tension of a thriller with the weight of Kafkaesque absurdity, this isn’t just a hunt for a murderer—it’s a reckoning with the walls we build in our own minds. Open it, and you’ll start questioning every “boundary” you’ve ever taken for granted.
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