The City & The City

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a World Fantasy award, and a BSFA Award Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other. ''There is no one else writing stuff like this.'' Dazed 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 Borlu 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. Borlu 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 Mieville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights. ''As intelligent as he is original'' - The Guardian

About the author

China Miéville lives and works in London. He is a three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell and Philip K. Dick. His novel Embassytown was a first and widely praised foray into science fiction.

Product details

• Authors: China Mieville, China Miéville
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9781035060245
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3506024-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary, Speculative fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Street fiction / urban fiction