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The City & the City

by China Miéville

Arthur C. Clarke Award · 2010 · WinnerLocus Award for Best Fantasy Novel · 2010 · WinnerWorld Fantasy Award for Best Novel · 2010 · Winner
Del Reysffmystery-crimeISBN 9780345497529

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Arthur C. Clarke Award2010Winner
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel2010Winner
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel2010Winner

About This Book

In the twin cities of Beszel and Ul Qoma, which physically occupy the same space yet are separate nations, a detective investigates a murder that forces him to confront the mysterious entity called Breach—which enforces the cities' impossible separation.

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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