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The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth - the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster - is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and(...)
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The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth - the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster - is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and(...)
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Red thread: On mazes and labyrinths
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The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth - the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster - is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and artistry. Charlotte Higgins, author of the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted ''Under Another Sky,'' tracks the origins of the story of the labyrinth in the poems of Homer, Catullus, Virgil and Ovid, and with them builds an ingenious edifice of her own. She follows the idea of the labyrinth through the Cretan excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, the mysterious turf labyrinths of Northern Europe, the church labyrinths of medieval French cathedrals and the hedge mazes of Renaissance gardens. Along the way, she traces the labyrinthine ideas of writers from Dante and Borges to George Eliot and Conan Doyle, and of artists from Titian and Vel zquez to Picasso and Eva Hesse. Her intricately constructed narrative asks what it is to be lost, what it is to find one's way, and what it is to travel the confusing and circuitous path of a lived life. ''Red thread'' is, above all, a winding and unpredictable route through the byways of the author's imagination - one that leads the reader on a strange and intriguing journey, full of unexpected connections and surprising pleasures.
Red thread: On mazes and labyrinths
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The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth - the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster - is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and artistry. Charlotte Higgins, author of the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted ''Under Another Sky,'' tracks the origins of the story of the labyrinth in the poems of Homer, Catullus, Virgil and Ovid, and with them builds an ingenious edifice of her own. She follows the idea of the labyrinth through the Cretan excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, the mysterious turf labyrinths of Northern Europe, the church labyrinths of medieval French cathedrals and the hedge mazes of Renaissance gardens. Along the way, she traces the labyrinthine ideas of writers from Dante and Borges to George Eliot and Conan Doyle, and of artists from Titian and Vel zquez to Picasso and Eva Hesse. Her intricately constructed narrative asks what it is to be lost, what it is to find one's way, and what it is to travel the confusing and circuitous path of a lived life. ''Red thread'' is, above all, a winding and unpredictable route through the byways of the author's imagination - one that leads the reader on a strange and intriguing journey, full of unexpected connections and surprising pleasures.
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October 2021
October 2021
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Journeys
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In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre tourist attractions, Wat Phai Rong Wua was designed as a cautionary museum of sorts; its gruesome statues depict violent and(...)
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In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre tourist attractions, Wat Phai Rong Wua was designed as a cautionary museum of sorts; its gruesome statues depict violent and(...)
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The fate of rural hell : ascetism and desire in buddhist Thailand
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In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre tourist attractions, Wat Phai Rong Wua was designed as a cautionary museum of sorts; its gruesome statues depict violent and torturous scenes that showcase what hell may be like. Over the next few decades, Anderson found himself transfixed by this unusual amalgamation of objects, returning several times to see attractions like the largest metal-cast Buddha figure in the world and the Palace of a Hundred Spires. The concrete statuaries and perverse art in Luang Phor Khom's personal museum of hell included, 'side by side, an upright human skeleton in a glass cabinet and a life-size replica of Michelangelo's gigantic nude David, wearing fashionable red underpants from the top of which poked part of a swollen, un-Florentine penis,' alongside dozens of statues of evildoers being ferociously punished in their afterlife. In The Fate of Rural Hell, Anderson unravels the intrigue of this strange setting, trying to discover what compels so many Thai visitors to travel to this popular spectacle and what order, if any, inspired its creation. At the same time, he notes the unexpected effects of the gradual advance of capitalism into the far reaches of rural Asia.
The fate of rural hell : ascetism and desire in buddhist Thailand
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In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre tourist attractions, Wat Phai Rong Wua was designed as a cautionary museum of sorts; its gruesome statues depict violent and torturous scenes that showcase what hell may be like. Over the next few decades, Anderson found himself transfixed by this unusual amalgamation of objects, returning several times to see attractions like the largest metal-cast Buddha figure in the world and the Palace of a Hundred Spires. The concrete statuaries and perverse art in Luang Phor Khom's personal museum of hell included, 'side by side, an upright human skeleton in a glass cabinet and a life-size replica of Michelangelo's gigantic nude David, wearing fashionable red underpants from the top of which poked part of a swollen, un-Florentine penis,' alongside dozens of statues of evildoers being ferociously punished in their afterlife. In The Fate of Rural Hell, Anderson unravels the intrigue of this strange setting, trying to discover what compels so many Thai visitors to travel to this popular spectacle and what order, if any, inspired its creation. At the same time, he notes the unexpected effects of the gradual advance of capitalism into the far reaches of rural Asia.
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April 2012
April 2012
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Art Theory
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317 pages ; 27 cm.
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317 pages ; 27 cm.
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- Stesichorus Criticism and interpretation.,
- Stesichorus.,
- Hesperiden,
- Hesperos,
- Voyages and travels Mythology.,
- Planets Mythology.,
- Civilization.,
- Antiquities.,
- Mythology.,
- Griechisch,
- Versdichtung,
- Mediterranean Region Civilization.,
- Geography, Ancient.,
- Earth (Planet) Mythology.,
- Mediterranean Region Antiquities.,
- Méditerranée, Région de la Civilisation.,
- Mediterranean Region.,
- Earth (Planet),
- Sun.,
- Miscellany,
- Kongress Neapel 2013.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Paestum : Pandemos : Fondazione Paestum, 2014.
Paestum : Pandemos : Fondazione Paestum, 2014.
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Hespería : tradizioni, rotte, paesaggi / [a cura di] Luisa Breglia, Alda Moleti.
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317 pages ; 27 cm.
Hespería : tradizioni, rotte, paesaggi / [a cura di] Luisa Breglia, Alda Moleti.
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Paestum : Pandemos : Fondazione Paestum, 2014.
Paestum : Pandemos : Fondazione Paestum, 2014.
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- Stesichorus Criticism and interpretation.,
- Stesichorus.,
- Hesperiden,
- Hesperos,
- Voyages and travels Mythology.,
- Planets Mythology.,
- Civilization.,
- Antiquities.,
- Mythology.,
- Griechisch,
- Versdichtung,
- Mediterranean Region Civilization.,
- Geography, Ancient.,
- Earth (Planet) Mythology.,
- Mediterranean Region Antiquities.,
- Méditerranée, Région de la Civilisation.,
- Mediterranean Region.,
- Earth (Planet),
- Sun.,
- Miscellany,
- Kongress Neapel 2013.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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192 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 x 35 cm
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Ostfildern : Hatje/Cantz, [2012], ©2012
Ostfildern : Hatje/Cantz, [2012], ©2012
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Short stalks at distant shores : imaging post-Soviet space / Christoph Grill ; with essays by Ulf Brunnbauer, Christoph Grill, Ulrich Tragatschnig = mit Texten von Ulf Brunnbauer, Christoph Grill, Ulrich Tragatschnig.
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192 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 x 35 cm
Short stalks at distant shores : imaging post-Soviet space / Christoph Grill ; with essays by Ulf Brunnbauer, Christoph Grill, Ulrich Tragatschnig = mit Texten von Ulf Brunnbauer, Christoph Grill, Ulrich Tragatschnig.
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192 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 x 35 cm
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Ostfildern : Hatje/Cantz, [2012], ©2012
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397 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
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397 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
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- Richard F. Townsend -- Anthony F. Aveni -- Evon Z. Vogt -- Vincent Scully -- J.J. Brody -- Stephen H. Lekson -- Beatriz de la Fuente -- Esther Pasztory -- Juan Antonio Valdes -- Mary Ellen Miller -- Richard F. Townsend -- Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Mary W. Helms -- Francisco Valdez -- Tom Zuidema -- The sacred center of Chavin de Huantar / Richard L. Burger -- Anne Paul -- Johan Reinhard -- Elizabeth P. Benson -- Alan Kolata, Carlos Ponce Sangines -- Rebecca Stone-Miller -- Susan A. Niles -- Colin McEwan, Maarten Van de Guchte.,
- Townsend, Richard F.,,
- Aveni, Anthony F.,,
- Art Institute of Chicago,,
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,,
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
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- Indian art Exhibitions.,
- Indigenous peoples Antiquities Exhibitions.,
- Indigenous art North America Exhibitions.,
- Indigenous art Central America Exhibitions.,
- Indigenous art South America Exhibitions.,
- Art autochtone Amérique du Nord Expositions.,
- Art autochtone Amérique centrale Expositions.,
- Art autochtone Amérique du Sud Expositions.,
- Art précolumbien Expositions.,
- Peuples autochtones Antiquités Expositions.,
- Art précolombien Expositions.,
- Indigenous art,
- Antiquities,
- Indian art,
- Indians Antiquities,
- Kunst,
- Ausstellung,
- Heilige plaatsen.,
- Beeldende kunsten.,
- America Antiquities Exhibitions.,
- America Antiquities.,
- Amérique Antiquités Expositions.,
- South America,
- North America,
- Central America,
- America,
- Altamerika,
- Visual arts,
- Ausstellung Chicago (Ill.) 1992.,
- Exhibition publications.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Exhibition catalogs,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago ; Munich : Prestel Verlag ; New York, N.Y. : Distribution of the hardcover ed. by Neues Pub. Co., ©1992.
Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago ; Munich : Prestel Verlag ; New York, N.Y. : Distribution of the hardcover ed. by Neues Pub. Co., ©1992.
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The Ancient Americas : art from sacred landscapes / Richard F. Townsend, general editor ; with essays by Anthony F. Aveni [and others].
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397 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
The Ancient Americas : art from sacred landscapes / Richard F. Townsend, general editor ; with essays by Anthony F. Aveni [and others].
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Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago ; Munich : Prestel Verlag ; New York, N.Y. : Distribution of the hardcover ed. by Neues Pub. Co., ©1992.
Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago ; Munich : Prestel Verlag ; New York, N.Y. : Distribution of the hardcover ed. by Neues Pub. Co., ©1992.
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- Richard F. Townsend -- Anthony F. Aveni -- Evon Z. Vogt -- Vincent Scully -- J.J. Brody -- Stephen H. Lekson -- Beatriz de la Fuente -- Esther Pasztory -- Juan Antonio Valdes -- Mary Ellen Miller -- Richard F. Townsend -- Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Mary W. Helms -- Francisco Valdez -- Tom Zuidema -- The sacred center of Chavin de Huantar / Richard L. Burger -- Anne Paul -- Johan Reinhard -- Elizabeth P. Benson -- Alan Kolata, Carlos Ponce Sangines -- Rebecca Stone-Miller -- Susan A. Niles -- Colin McEwan, Maarten Van de Guchte.,
- Townsend, Richard F.,,
- Aveni, Anthony F.,,
- Art Institute of Chicago,,
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,,
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
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- Indian art Exhibitions.,
- Indigenous peoples Antiquities Exhibitions.,
- Indigenous art North America Exhibitions.,
- Indigenous art Central America Exhibitions.,
- Indigenous art South America Exhibitions.,
- Art autochtone Amérique du Nord Expositions.,
- Art autochtone Amérique centrale Expositions.,
- Art autochtone Amérique du Sud Expositions.,
- Art précolumbien Expositions.,
- Peuples autochtones Antiquités Expositions.,
- Art précolombien Expositions.,
- Indigenous art,
- Antiquities,
- Indian art,
- Indians Antiquities,
- Kunst,
- Ausstellung,
- Heilige plaatsen.,
- Beeldende kunsten.,
- America Antiquities Exhibitions.,
- America Antiquities.,
- Amérique Antiquités Expositions.,
- South America,
- North America,
- Central America,
- America,
- Altamerika,
- Visual arts,
- Ausstellung Chicago (Ill.) 1992.,
- Exhibition publications.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Exhibition catalogs,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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286 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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286 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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London : Thames and Hudson, 1986 repr, 1963.
London : Thames and Hudson, 1986 repr, 1963.
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Art of the Byzantine era / David Talbot Rice.
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286 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Art of the Byzantine era / David Talbot Rice.
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286 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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London : Thames and Hudson, 1986 repr, 1963.
London : Thames and Hudson, 1986 repr, 1963.
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135 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 x 30 cm
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London ; New York : Phaidon, 2005.
London ; New York : Phaidon, 2005.
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Abelardo Morell / Richard B. Woodward.
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135 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 x 30 cm
Abelardo Morell / Richard B. Woodward.
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135 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 x 30 cm
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London ; New York : Phaidon, 2005.
London ; New York : Phaidon, 2005.
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4 volumes : illustrations ; 31-62 cm
- Library main m 192759 | IDM NA285.B3.C67; ID:97-B3827 | v. 1 | Available
- Library main m 192758 | IDM NA285.B3.C67; ID:97-B3827 | v. 2 | Available
- Library main m 192757 | IDM NA285.B3.C67; ID:97-B3827 | v. 3 | Available
- Library main m 192756 | IDM NA285.B3.C67; ID:97-B3827 | v. 4 | Available
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4 volumes : illustrations ; 31-62 cm
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- Temple of Apollo (Bassai),
- Antiquities.,
- Tempels.,
- Archeologische vondsten.,
- Arquitetura grega.,
- Arqueologia grega.,
- Edifícios religiosos (arquitetura;arqueologia),
- Escultura grega (arquitetura),
- Sítios arqueológicos (arquitetura;arqueologia) Grécia;messênia.,
- Bassai (Extinct city),
- Greece Antiquities.,
- Grèce Antiquités.,
- Greece Bassai (Extinct city),
- Greece.
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Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992-1996.
Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992-1996.
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The Temple of Apollo Bassitas / Frederick A. Cooper, editor.
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4 volumes : illustrations ; 31-62 cm
The Temple of Apollo Bassitas / Frederick A. Cooper, editor.
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- Library main m 192757 | IDM NA285.B3.C67; ID:97-B3827 | v. 3 | Available
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4 volumes : illustrations ; 31-62 cm
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Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992-1996.
Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992-1996.
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- Temple of Apollo (Bassai),
- Antiquities.,
- Tempels.,
- Archeologische vondsten.,
- Arquitetura grega.,
- Arqueologia grega.,
- Edifícios religiosos (arquitetura;arqueologia),
- Escultura grega (arquitetura),
- Sítios arqueológicos (arquitetura;arqueologia) Grécia;messênia.,
- Bassai (Extinct city),
- Greece Antiquities.,
- Grèce Antiquités.,
- Greece Bassai (Extinct city),
- Greece.
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The city and the city
The city and the city
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Author China Miéville delivers 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 Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than(...)
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Author China Miéville delivers 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 Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than(...)
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The city and the city
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Author China Miéville delivers 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 Borlú 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. Borlú 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, Borlú 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.
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Author China Miéville delivers 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 Borlú 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. Borlú 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, Borlú 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.
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May 2009
May 2009
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Situationism
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