![]() ![]() When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. 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. 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.Īvice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer-and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field-with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war. China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. ![]()
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