Book description
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary,
decaying city of Bes el, 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 1984
, The City & The City
is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic
heights. China Mieville lives and works in London. He has twice won
the prestigous Arthur C. Clarke Award, with Perdido Street Station
and Iron Council
, and is also twice winner of the British Fantasy Award, for Perdido
Street Station
and The Scar
. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed young adult novel, Un
Lun Dun
.
