The City & The City
The City & The CityChina Miéville
Characters in The City & The City
7 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Tyador Borlú
Supporting characters
Mahalia Geary
The murder victim, an American graduate student, whose death launches Borlú's investigation.
Qussim Dhatt
An Ul Qoman detective who becomes Borlú's partner once the investigation crosses into Ul Qoma.
Lizybet Corwi
Borlú's police partner in Besźel, assisting his side of the investigation.
Yolanda Rodriguez
Mahalia Geary's closest friend and fellow doctoral student, drawn into danger after the murder.
David Bowden
An academic whose book proposing a hidden third city, Orciny, becomes central to the investigation.
Ashil
An agent of Breach, the power that enforces the separation between the two cities.