Více o knize
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.
Nákup knihy
Embassytown, China Miéville
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2011
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- Titul
- Embassytown
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- China Miéville
- Vydavatel
- Macmillan Publishers Ltd
- Rok vydání
- 2011
- Vazba
- pevná
- Počet stran
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0230750761
- ISBN13
- 9780230750760
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Science fantasy, Lingvistika, Space Opera, Steampunk, Weird & New Weird, Mimozemské civilizace, Locus Poll Award (ocenění), Velvyslanci, Interlingvistika
- První vydání
- 2011
- Původní název
- Embassytown
- Hodnocení
- 3,95 z 5
- Anotace
- 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.