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| Publisher: | Ballantine Books |
| Genres: | Science Fiction, Fantasy Books, Fiction Books |
| Authors: | China Miéville |
| Pages: | 345 pages |
| ISBN10: | 0345524497 |
| ISBN13: | 9780345524492 |
| Tags: | Fantasy Books, Fiction Books, Science Fiction, Free Download, PDF Download |
| Language: | en |
| Physical Form: | PDF Book |
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China Mieville doesn't follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer--and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field--with "Embassytown," Mieville 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 loyalties--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.
