Read By: Susan Duerden

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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