The City & the City

Summary

In this genre bending novel, a detective investigates a murder in two fictional Eastern European cities that occupy the same physical space yet whose residents are trained to unsee each other under threat of a shadowy power called Breach. The case forces Inspector Tyador Borlú to cross the rigid psychological and political boundaries that keep the cities apart. Miéville fuses noir detective fiction with a profound meditation on borders, perception, and the way people learn to ignore what surrounds them.