The City the City Summary. Inspector Tyador Borlú arrives at the scene of a murder. A constable named Lizybet Corwi is already there, looking at the body of the dead woman. The pathologist, Stepen Shukman, determines that the woman died from puncture wounds to her chest, although there are also significant gashes across her face. New York Times best-selling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other, real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. “China Mieville has made his name via award-winning, genre-bending titles such as King Rat, Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council. Now, in The City the City, he sets out to bend yet another genre, that of the police procedural, and he succeeds brilliantly. [An] Cited by:
New York Times best-selling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other, real or imagined.. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. China Mieville is one of the more clever writers in any genre. In The City and the City he as written a murder mystery, but one in a place like no other. The cities of Beszel and Ul Qoma reside in the same temporal space connected by crosshatches. And in-between is a shadowy nowhere, the Breach. The City and the City is one of his most popular and acclaimed books; it won several major awards, including the Locus Award, the Arthur C. Clarke award, and the Hugo Award. In addition to fiction, Miéville has also published comics, a children's book, academic writing, and a retelling of the Russian Revolution (October, published in.
The City the City Summary. Inspector Tyador Borlú arrives at the scene of a murder. A constable named Lizybet Corwi is already there, looking at the body of the dead woman. The pathologist, Stepen Shukman, determines that the woman died from puncture wounds to her chest, although there are also significant gashes across her face. The City the City is a novel by British author China Miéville that follows a wide-reaching murder investigation in two cities that occupy the same space simultaneously, combining weird fiction with the police procedural. It was written as a gift for Miéville's terminally ill mother, who was a fan of the latter genre. New York Times best-selling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other, real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad.
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