New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined.

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.

Borlu must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel's equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlu is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman's secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives.

What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.

Casting 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.

柴納·米耶維

China Miéville

1972年齣生於英格蘭，以“新怪譚”風格奠定國際聲譽，21世紀的重要奇幻作傢。代錶作品有《鼠王》、《帕迪杜街車站》、《地疤》、《僞倫敦》、《城與城》、《尋找傑剋》等。米耶維的寫作風格多半帶有詭異的幽默感，擅長構製宏大逼真的奇境世界。作品屢獲軌跡奬、雨果奬、世界奇幻奬、阿瑟·剋拉剋奬等重要國際奇幻、科幻文學奬。