Embassytown

by China Mieville

9780230754317 - Embassytown

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Format: Book (Paperback)
ISBN13: 9780230754317
Published: May 2011

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This is a limited signed edition of the enthralling new novel from the award-winning author of "Kraken and The City & The City". Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes. Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts. And that is impossible.

China Mieville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and The Scar). The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published in 2009 to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell (The Times) and Philip K. Dick (Guardian). His most recent novel, Kraken, was published in 2010.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Book (Paperback)
ISBN13: 9780230754317
Published: May 2011

Number of pages: 432
Width: 234 mm
Height: 153 mm

Audience: General/trade
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Country: United Kingdom

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