The city & the city / China Mieville.
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TextSeries: Picador classicPublisher: London : Picador, 2018Edition: [New] edition / with an introduction by Kamila ShamsieDescription: xvii, 372 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509870585 (pbk.) :Other title: The city and the citySubject(s): Murder -- Investigation -- FictionGenre/Form: Science fiction. | Science fiction. | Science fiction | Modern & contemporary fiction | Fantasy | Crime & mystery fiction | Fiction: general & literary | Crime & mystery: police procedural | Urban fantasyDDC classification: 823.92 LOC classification: PR6063.I265Summary: `Fiction of the new century' - Neil Gaiman With an introduction by novelist Kamila ShamsieWhen 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 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. Borl 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 George Orwell, the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Miville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
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Previous edition: London: Macmillan, 2009.
`Fiction of the new century' - Neil Gaiman With an introduction by novelist Kamila ShamsieWhen 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 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. Borl 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 George Orwell, the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Miville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
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