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Also by China Mieville:

The Book of Elsewhere, August 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Kraken, July 2010
Hardcover
The City & The City, May 2010
Paperback

THE CITY & THE CITY
By: China Mieville

Del Rey
May 2010
On Sale: April 27, 2010
352 pages
ISBN: 034549752X
EAN: 9780345497529
Paperback
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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. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.

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