The City & the City

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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. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & The City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
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J FraApr 15, 2025
4.5 stars
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Hamed KhalidiApr 15, 2024
5 stars
Page turning
Conceptual
Dark
Deep
Edgy
Erratic
Intense
Paradoxical
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AshJan 7, 2024
4 stars
Cerebral
Clever
Thought provoking
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ayseJan 4, 2023
4 stars
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jessAug 18, 2022
3 stars
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Tao OatDec 23, 2021
4.5 stars
Remarkable
Fascinating
Sophisticated

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