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The City & the City

China Miéville

312 pages

About this book

Inspector Tyador Borlú must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Besźel.

Themes
Dark & BroodingDreamlike & SurrealMysteriousStrange & UnsettlingThought-ProvokingThe violence of unseeingPerception shapes realityBureaucracy of coexistence
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