The City & The City
An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
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Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Beszel Extreme Crime Squad investigates the murder of a young woman in a slum. The case quietly crosses the line into Ul Qoma, the second city that occupies the same streets as his own.
The City & The City was written by China Mieville and published in 2009. The metadata above lists Edith Nesbit in error. Mieville is also the author of Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Embassytown.
Yes. The City & The City won the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, BSFA, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. It is one of the most-decorated novels of the 21st century.
The City & The City is 162 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The City & The City takes most readers 2 to 4 hours to finish.
The City & The City is a standalone novel by Edith Nesbit, not part of a series.
The City & The City is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
