by China Miéville · Random House Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780345497529
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In the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, Inspector Tyador Borlú faces a seemingly routine case: the murder of a woman. The investigation leads him to travel to Ul Qoma, Beszel's neighboring, rival, and intimate city. This border crossing is unique, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. Alongside Ul Qoma detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú becomes entangled in a sordid underworld of nationalists seeking to destroy the neighboring city and unificationists who dream of merging both into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman's secrets, they suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. Against them stand murderous powers in Beszel and Ul Qoma, and most terrifying of all, that which lies between the two cities.
China Tom Miéville is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction", and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird.
