| Display title | The City & the City |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | The City & the City is a 2009 novel by China Miéville. Crime novel, urban fantasy, New Weird. Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad of the decaying Ruritanian city-state of Beszel investigates a murder; his investigation turns international, and he ends up crossing over to Ul Qoma (a Singapore-like city-state, with some Turkish flavor and an embargo by the US) to continue his work. Ul Qoma happens to be geographically - grosstopically, to use the local phrase - in the same place as Beszel, but a completely different culture. There are neighborhoods of Ul Qoma that are exclusively Ul Qoman, and neighborhoods of Beszel that are exclusively Besz, but there are a number of locations that are 'cross-hatched' (part Besz, part Ul Qoman), in which, depending on which city-state one is in, one must unsee what is in the other city-state, for fear of Breach (a kind of secret police). There's also rumors of a third city, Orciny, between the two cities. |