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started reading The City & The City by China Miéville

China Miéville: The City & The City (EBook, 2009, Random House Publishing Group)

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge …

Since I just started playing Disco Elysium, I thought I should pick up this book from a great author I haven't read enough (yet). A lot of people recommended this to fans of the game and the similarities are clear; both detective stories, set in vaguely post-Soviet cities in worlds where reality is... just a little bit out of whack. Beautiful prose, as always, and it seems like it's a much more accessible story than the other book for adults I've read from him, Embassytown. (though maybe I was just a little bit too young for its highbrow themes? I should add it to the re-read list.)