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Literature & Fiction

Embassytown

Embassytown

China MiÃ©ville doesnâ€™t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writerâ€”and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire fieldâ€”with Embassytown, MiÃ©ville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.

In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.

Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.

When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyaltiesâ€”to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.
Country USA
Manufacturer Del Rey
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-05-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345524492

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