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Totally fascinating. Mieville constructs a reasonably believable location in eastern Europe or so which contains two cities, existing on top of and between each other. Residents exist in either one city or the other, with entirely different wardrobes, architecture, crowded areas, mannerisms, languages. They "unsee" anything in the other city. In order to go from one city to the other, people must apply for visas, cross over at an official border crossing, and mentally switch their vision. Among
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Funky, Mieville delivers another intriguing story in a strange yet familiar world. Starts as a straight who dunnit and then gets weird with the split city, seeing and unseeing and Breach! Breach is a classic example of how we give power to institutions and concepts – a shared illusion. Cool convoluted plot dealing with archeological mysteries and mythical civilizations in the middle of split city. The Americans of course are the blundering villains, but what else is new – insensitive to local nu
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Really nice book. I loved the premise of two cities occupying the same physical space, and the mashing of a police procedural with fantasy/scifi genres. Well done, Mr. Miéville.
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