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.
The City and The City is the joint winner of the 2010 Hugo Award along with our September Novel The Windup Girl (https://www.meetup.com/The-Science-Fiction-Book-Club/calendar/14076548/). China Miéville’s latest paperback may fool you into thinking it’s police procedural but it is anything but.
A full list of Hugo 2010 Nominees. (https://www.thehugoawards.org/2010/04/2010-hugo-award-nominees-details/)
Some Reviews
(https://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/30/china-mieville-fiction)
