Description: Praise for China Miville The City & The City "Dark and thought-provoking . . . [This novel has] the gritty, grainy feel of many a murder mystery shot in black-and-white, with some of the foreboding, elusive narrowness-of-frame that a Cold War spy flick possesses." -- The San Diego Union-Tribune Embassytown "Richly conceived . . . Embassytown has the feel of a word-puzzle, and much of the pleasure of figuring out the logic of the world and the story comes from gradually catching the full resonance of its invented and imported words." --The New York Times Book Review Railsea "Other names besides Melville's will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale: Dune 's Frank Herbert, for example, & even Robert Louis Stevenson. But in this, as in all of his works, Miville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own." -- Los Angeles Times Perdido Street Station "Compulsively readable . . . impossible to expunge from memory." -- The Washington Post Book World

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