Events
Open Minds Book Club: The City & The City: A Novel
Date and Time
Thursday, February 20, 2025 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Location
Meijer Regency Room
Richard M. DeVos Center
401 West Fulton Street
Grand Rapids, MI
49504-6431
Description
NOTE: For the 2024-25 academic year, the Hauenstein Center will be sponsoring free copies of Open Minds Book Club books for currently enrolled GVSU students only.
Thank you for your interest in participating in the Open Minds Book Club!
For the February 2025 session of Open Minds, we will be reading and discussing The City and The City: A Novel by China Miéville.
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. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of 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 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.
The discussion for this book will be held on Wednesday, February 20, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Richard M. DeVos Center’s Meijer Regency Room located on the GVSU Pew Campus.
GVSU students interested in a free copy of the book must register by January 29.
See the full Open Minds Book Club schedule here!
This event has been tagged as grandforum, and talkingtogether.
Contact
If you have any questions, please email Kahler Sweeney.