The City & the City
China Mieville · 2009
Two cities occupy the same physical space. Citizens must "unsee" the other city or face punishment by Breach. Mieville's 2009 novel bends genre boundaries: part detective fiction, part Kafka, part political allegory about the borders people enforce through willful ignorance.
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Strip away the conceit and what remains is a routine procedural: a dead student, a rumpled inspector, a conspiracy that fizzles. The unseeing premise does all the heavy lifting, and the Orciny thread builds toward a revelation the book then quietly cancels. Borlu himself is barely there, a trench coat with a surname.
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