Monday, August 29, 2011

Book note

The City and the City
by China Mieville
2009

The City and the City is an absorbing mystery, both on the mystery-mystery level and the what-the-hell-are-these-cities mystery level. Like stories of its type, it solves the superficial mystery, gives you a good sense of the background, but you know all the while that there is much Borlu doesn't tell you -- or possibly doesn't realize himself. And you know this is coming, because it's that kind of book.

Like Avice, Borlu has truck-sized blind spots. Like Avice, he gets some better, though of course it comes with a price.

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