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July 5, 2009
The City and The City
Just finished China Mieville's The City and The City.
In some respects it's "just" a police procedural murder mystery - but in another sense, it's very Mieville. The cities the title references are both part of the mystery and a mystery of their own - and a fascinating setting for the story.
It's both more approachable than Perdido St. Station and at the same time more opaque. Like other Mieville works, it has some moments of completely realized imagery that are likely to stick with me for quite a while.
I definitely enjoyed it, though I'm not sure I completely "got" it.
Posted by dberger at July 5, 2009 8:45 PM