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title: The City & The City
type: Book
date: 2023-09-25
rating: 8
author: China Miéville
genre:
  - Fantasy
year: 2009
status: Finished
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tags:
  - book
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 China Mieville is an author that I have heard mentioned and recommended in comparison to many writers I like — Borges, Calvino, Jemisin — and yet had never really considered reading, perhaps because I didn't quite understand his ouevre.

Well, I _loved_ this book. What I think Mieville does so well is take a relatively interesting but low-rent premise (that easily could be fashioned as a Borges short story) and, rather than beat it to death with the size and heft of a novel, use it as the _background_ for an otherwise well-executed and satisfying crime novel.