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Tags: Fantasy, Hugo Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, BSFA Award, Lang:en
Summary
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
Borlú 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. Borlú must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as
strange as his own, across a border like no other. It is a
journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception,
a seeing of the unseen, a journey to Beszel's equal, rival,
and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma.
With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler
and
1984, The City & The City is a murder mystery
taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
2010 Hugo Award
2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award
2009 BSFA Award