The City & The City

China Miéville

2010 Nominee

Nebula Award Best Novel

2010 Winner

Locus Award Best Fantasy Novel

2010 Winner

The Kitschies Red Tentacle Award for Best Novel

2010 Winner

The Arthur C. Clarke Award

2010 Winner

BSFA Award for Best Novel

06 May 2011
9780330534192
384 pages

Synopsis

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 1984, the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Miéville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.

Fiction of the new century.