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tritonesub
May 20, 2016
This is my third China Miéville book, and every one was deeply satisfying. "The City & the City" may have been the most approachable of the three I've read so far (the other two being "Embassytown" and "This Census-Taker"), as it is, at the core, a murder-mystery. But the setting is so imaginative that it takes your breath away. It's a totally realistic alternative universe, one that the author has clearly researched well (makes me believe that he's actually lived there), and this reality makes it all the more powerful.