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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
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
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- Titel
- Embassytown
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- China Miéville
- Verlag
- Macmillan Publishers Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0230750761
- ISBN13
- 9780230750760
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Science-Fantasy, Linguistik, Space Opera, Steampunk, Weird & New Weird, Außerirdische Zivilisationen, Locus Poll Award, Botschafter, Interlinguistik
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2011
- Originaltitel
- Embassytown
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.