The City and the City

柴纳·米耶维China Miéville1972年出生于英格兰，以“新怪谭”风格奠定国际声誉，21世纪的重要奇幻作家。代表作品有《鼠王》、《帕迪杜街车站》、《地疤》、《伪伦敦》、《城与城》、《寻找杰克》等。米耶维的写作风格多半带有诡异的幽默感，擅长构制宏大逼真的奇境世界。作品屡获轨迹奖、雨果奖、世界奇幻奖、阿瑟·克拉克奖等重要国际奇幻、科幻文学奖。

出版者:Del Rey

作者:China Mieville

页数:336

出版时间:2009-5-26

价格:USD 26.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780345497512

图书标签:ChinaMieville雨果奖奇幻China_Miéville英国SF这个世界还有冷书。小说

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined.

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.

Borlu must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel's equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlu is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman's secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives.

What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.

Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.

读后感

城市的隐喻和镜像——评China Mieville的《The City&The City》 文/韬子 [Update 获奖] 2009 BSFA Winner 大英科幻奖 2009 Nebula Nominated 星云奖提名 2010 Clarke Winner 阿瑟.克拉克奖 2010 Hugo Winner 雨果奖 2010 Locus F Winner 轨迹奇幻奖 2010 WFA Winner 世界奇幻...  

书中有两座城，两个谜。 前半段主要用于确立贝歇尔与乌库姆这两座城对立共存的合理性。这种设定，无疑让人想起既是贵妇又是女巫、或既是杯子又是人脸的那些错觉画，端看观者如何选择关注点了。但在书中，这种对比放大到了整个城市的一切众生，显得更为壮阔瑰异。如此反常识的...

书中有两座城，两个谜。 前半段主要用于确立贝歇尔与乌库姆这两座城对立共存的合理性。这种设定，无疑让人想起既是贵妇又是女巫、或既是杯子又是人脸的那些错觉画，端看观者如何选择关注点了。但在书中，这种对比放大到了整个城市的一切众生，显得更为壮阔瑰异。如此反常识的...

书中有两座城，两个谜。 前半段主要用于确立贝歇尔与乌库姆这两座城对立共存的合理性。这种设定，无疑让人想起既是贵妇又是女巫、或既是杯子又是人脸的那些错觉画，端看观者如何选择关注点了。但在书中，这种对比放大到了整个城市的一切众生，显得更为壮阔瑰异。如此反常识的...

用户评价

双城的设定太引人入胜了! 不止物理上存在的边境 意识形态的割裂结合当今时局不禁令人唏嘘 非常适合影像化的作品 对交杂的建筑 色彩 风土人情会呈现怎样的画面充满了好奇 恶趣味野生梗是PhD学生的职业风险望天呵呵!

don't like the ending

不断来往的旅客和行人，在这里转换角色，属于先前那座城市的视野和形象，在跨入另一座城市之后逐渐淡出。

那種越界後到平行世界的無奈 最後給出三星 等拍成電影

这个结尾和厉害的设定相比有点失望啊，果然亮点还是在日常的双城生活嘛