{"id":471,"date":"2009-09-11T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2009\/09\/11\/breach\/"},"modified":"2014-01-17T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:38:08","slug":"breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2009\/09\/11\/breach\/","title":{"rendered":"breach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"booktitle\">The City and the City<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">China Mi\u00e9ville<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\"><span id=\"pulloutr\" class=\"backblue\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/the-city-and-the-city-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"the-city-and-the-city\" title=\"the-city-and-the-city\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/the-city-and-the-city-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/the-city-and-the-city-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/the-city-and-the-city.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px\" \/><\/span>Outstanding work by Mi\u00e9ville, this combination of detective novel and fantasy is an engrossing and thought-provoking read.<br \/>\nStarting when Inspector Borlu of the Beszel police is called to a murder scene, this story unfolds into bizarre relationshop of twin cities of Beszel and Ul Qoma.<br \/>\nUnlike Buda and Pest or Minneapolis and St Paul these cities aren&#8217;t next door neighbours &#8211; they occupy the same physical space.<br \/>\nMi\u00e9ville conveys the atmosphere of the cities wonderfully well and from behind the eyes of his protagonist you feel he really understands what it would be like to live in a city and have to &#8216;unsee&#8217; the trains going past your window because they&#8217;re in the other city&#8230;<br \/>\nI recommend this book without reservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookrating\">Rating: A+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City and the City China Mi\u00e9ville Outstanding work by Mi\u00e9ville, this combination of detective novel and fantasy is an engrossing and thought-provoking read. Starting when Inspector Borlu of the Beszel police is called to a murder scene, this story unfolds into bizarre relationshop of twin cities of Beszel and Ul Qoma. Unlike Buda and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,13,50,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","category-books","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-rated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}