The names of Kafka and Orwell tend to be invoked too easily for anything a bit out of the ordinary, but in this case they are worthy comparisons

The Times

There is no one else writing stuff like this

Dazed

As intelligent as he is original

The Guardian

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Audacious, original and haunting

Daily Mail

Daring and disturbing

- Walter Mosley, author of the bestselling Easy Rawlins Mysteries series,

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.’ – DazedWhen 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.With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, the multi-award-winning The City & The City by China Miéville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.'As intelligent as he is original' – The Guardian
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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.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781035060245
Publisert
2025-02-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Picador
Vekt
262 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

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Om bidragsyterne

China Miéville lives and works in London. He is a three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparisons with the works of Kafka, Orwell and Philip K. Dick.