Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2010
Winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel 2009
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2010
Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2010
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel 2010
'As in no previous novel,the author celebrates and enhances the genre he loves and has never rejected. On many levels this novel is a testament to his admirable integrity.'- Michael Moorcock,The Guardian
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...
LikeChina Miéville's debutPerdido Street Station,The City and the Cityis a virtuosic display of imagination and writerly skill,but not at the expense of a rich and involving story rooted within the conventions of the detective genre.Miévilleconfidently and quite brilliantly pulls off the conceit of two cities weaved within each other,with only the shadowy members of the Breach enjoying total oversight. Although critical allusions to bothKafkaand Philip K. Dick have been made,the author here speaks with very much his own voice,conjuring a certain kind of eastern European noir,pitched somewhere between the future and the past.
Now adapted for BBC 2 by screenwriter Tony Grisoni and directed byTom Shankland.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9780330534192Number of pages: 384Weight: 259 gDimensions: 197 x 131 x 24 mm
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China Miéville
Author,visionary,revolutionary. London born fantasy author China Miéville is a gifted creative chameleon and a favourite with Waterstones'readers. His impressively varied body of work includes fantasy novels: Perdido Street Station,The Scar and Iron Council (known collectively as The Bas Lag Trilogy),Railsea,Embassy Town and Un Lun Dun as well as the existential thriller,The City and the City and novellas The Last Days of New Paris and This Census-Taker.
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