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The City & the City

by China Miéville

Hugo Award (Best Novel) · 2010 · Winner
Del Rey BookssffISBN 9780345497529

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Hugo Award (Best Novel)2010Winner

About This Book

A murdered woman is found in the city of Besźel—but she may have been killed in the city of Ul Qoma, which occupies the same physical space but remains invisible to inhabitants of the other city. A police procedural where the mystery is as much about perception as crime. Co-winner (tied) of the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

About the Author

China Miéville is a British author, academic, and political activist, widely regarded as one of the most important speculative fiction writers of his generation. He won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Embassytown (2012) and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel twice (for The City & the City in 2010 and Kraken in 2011). He has also won the Arthur C. Read more →

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