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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.
- China Miéville - Author
- Susan Duerden - Narrator
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780307913814
- File size: 356887 KB
- Release date: May 17, 2011
- Duration: 12:23:30
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9780307913814
- File size: 356930 KB
- Release date: May 17, 2011
- Duration: 12:23:30
- Number of parts: 10
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