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Title details for Embassytown by China Miéville - Available

Embassytown

by China Miéville
Susan Duerden
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China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.
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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    May 17, 2011

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      • ISBN: 9780307913814
      • File size: 356887 KB
      • Duration: 12:23:30

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Affecting a British accent and using strong projection, narrator Susan Duerden provides an engaging voice for this complicated novel. The presence of a new ambassador, a translator who is genetically programmed to communicate between humans and aliens, destabilizes the human colony on the planet Ariekei. Returning from years of working in space, Avice Benner Cho finds herself caught in the middle of the tension. In voicing this first-person narrative, Duerden gives Cho a confident yet intimate voice. As the story shifts back and forth between Cho's childhood and adulthood, Duerden expertly changes her tone to portray the age difference. Overall, Duerden's vocal characters are consistent and authentic. L.E. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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