Description
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.
'You can't talk about Mieville without using the word "brilliant".' - Ursula Le Guin, author of the Earthsea series.
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.
Adapted into the BBC Two series The City And The City starring David Morrissey.
A tie-in edition of this genre-busting thriller, from one of Britain's foremost fantasy writers, published to coincide with the broadcast of the BBC Two adaptation.
About the Author
China Mieville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and The Scar).
Reviews
You can't talk about Mieville without using the word "brilliant". -- Ursula Le Guin * Guardian *
Mieville is gifted with an incomparable visionary imagination. * Financial Times *
One of our most important writers. * Independent on Sunday *
Mieville - twice winner of the British Fantasy Award and three times winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award - is head and shoulders above other writers in this genre. * The Times *
Awards
Winner of Locus Award Best Fantasy Novel 2010 (UK) and The Kitschies Red Tentacle Award for Best Novel 2010 (UK) and The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2010 (UK) and BSFA Award for Best Novel 2010 (UK) and Hugo Award For Best Novel 2010 (United States) and World Fantasy Awards Best Novel 2010 (UK). Short-listed for Nebula Award Best Novel 2010 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9781509886531
Author China Mieville
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 274g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 25mm
