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.

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