Miéville has always been fixated on cities. And it's all upholstered in big ideas - about nationalism, cultural identity, the fear of absolute authority, the perceived threat of borders and their violability, and the overpowering irrationality of xenophobia. It's got murders, conspiracies, secrets, red herrings, action and suspense to burn. It's a hard-boiled detective story set in a scrambled world. The City & the City is existential pulp fiction. It also continues a trend begun in his previous book, the young adult adventure Un Lun Dun, of working comfortably within established genres (the Bas-Lag novels were exclusively the products of Planet China) while simultaneously taking those genres apart and rebuilding them via his own idioms. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City and the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.The City & the City is China Miéville's best novel since The Scar, and the tightest and most politically observant of his career.
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. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one.
His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma.
This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined. 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. You can read this before The City and the City PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The City and the City written by China Miéville which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The City and the City by China Miéville
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