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

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China Miéville is a Sunday Times bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction. His novels include The City & The City, Embassytown, Perdido Street Station and The Rouse. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction, he has won the World Fantasy, the Hugo, and the Arthur C. Clarke awards, among others. His non-fiction includes a study of international law and a history of the Russian Revolution.

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A brilliantly original masterpiece of speculative fiction, fusing weird fiction with the police procedural genre, from one of the world's most decorated SF writers.