Embassytown: A Novel

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Random House Worlds, Jan 31, 2012 - Fiction - 368 pages

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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—but which speaks through her, whether she likes it or not.

 

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Contents

Section 1
9
Section 2
18
Section 3
28
Section 4
43
Section 5
49
Section 6
59
Section 7
66
Section 8
86
Section 24
175
Section 25
184
Section 26
192
Section 27
203
Section 28
211
Section 29
218
Section 30
227
Section 31
238

Section 9
93
Section 10
96
Section 11
101
Section 12
104
Section 13
108
Section 14
114
Section 15
118
Section 16
124
Section 17
131
Section 18
139
Section 19
143
Section 20
148
Section 21
154
Section 22
165
Section 23
172
Section 32
243
Section 33
251
Section 34
264
Section 35
272
Section 36
278
Section 37
287
Section 38
299
Section 39
306
Section 40
311
Section 41
315
Section 42
327
Section 43
335
Section 44
338
Copyright

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About the author (2012)

China Miéville is the author of several books, including Perdido Street Station, The City & The City, and Kraken. His works have won the Hugo, the British Science Fiction Award (twice), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (three times) and the World Fantasy Award. He lives and works in London.

Bibliographic information

TitleEmbassytown: A Novel
AuthorChina Miéville
Editionreprint
PublisherRandom House Worlds, 2012
ISBN0345524500, 9780345524508
Length368 pages
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Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
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