The City and the City
China Miéville · 2009 · Novel
This work innovatively uses a unique speculative premise—two cities co-existing but separated by perception—to create a profound metaphor for social segregation and political control, which it then explores through a classic noir police procedural.
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Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad investigates the murder of a young woman, a case that forces him to navigate the intricate and dangerous political boundaries between two cities that physically occupy the same space but are perceived as entirely separate. The cities' inhabitants are trained from birth to "unsee" the other, creating a unique form of social control.
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