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The City & The City: A Novel

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China Miéville・・Ended

Updated: 2009

Content length: 332 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.

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A 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.