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So glad this one reeled me in and threw me up on the bank all spinning with dizzy pleasure. I was headed for disappointment 100 pages in. The fantasy of the setting was intriguing at first: two cities of distinct cultures in some fictional Near East country coexisting in the same place in pieces and patches with their residents trained to “unsee” each other and forbidden to interact. But I started to get a headache with its impossibilities. Was this just some intellectual game?
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The City and the City China Mieville
4 stars
This is the second novel I’ve read by China Mieville and I have to classify myself as a fan. His primary genre is weird fiction, but The City and the City is also crime fiction or mystery. When dropped into a Mieville setting, don't worry too much about it making sense – just go with the flow with the belief that it will come together.
The City and the City is not really placed on a map but appears to be in the general area of Eastern Europe/Turkey. The ...more
4 stars
This is the second novel I’ve read by China Mieville and I have to classify myself as a fan. His primary genre is weird fiction, but The City and the City is also crime fiction or mystery. When dropped into a Mieville setting, don't worry too much about it making sense – just go with the flow with the belief that it will come together.
The City and the City is not really placed on a map but appears to be in the general area of Eastern Europe/Turkey. The ...more
I really enjoyed this combination of weird fiction/crime fiction. The story is about two cities that overlap but agree not to "see" each other. A murder occurs and there is the problem of where did this murder occur and why did this murder occur.
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