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- 416 páginas
- 15 horas de lectura
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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 yet speaks through her.
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Embassytown, China Miéville
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2011
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- Título
- Embassytown
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- China Miéville
- Editorial
- Macmillan Publishers Ltd
- Publicado en
- 2011
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0230750761
- ISBN13
- 9780230750760
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Fantasía, Ciencia ficción, Ciencia ficción fantástica, Lingüística, Space opera, Steampunk, Civilizaciones extraterrestres, Weird & New Weird, Premio Locus, Embajadores, Interlingüística
- Primera publicación
- 2011
- Título original
- Embassytown
- Calificación
- 3,95 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.