of chases or violence 20% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 30% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 20% Descript. The result is a world masterfully wrecked and rebuilt.Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book Descript. The result is a world masterfully wrecked and rebuilt.” -P ublishers Weekly (starred review)

Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. A major intellectual achievement.” -Kirkus Reviews 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. “The Kafkaesque writer journeys to the distant edges of the universe in his latest sci-fi thriller.” -Entertainment Weekly Works on every level, providing compulsive narrative, splendid intellectual rigour and risk, moral sophistication, fine verbal fireworks and sideshows, and even the old-fashioned satisfaction of watching a protagonist become more of a person than she gave promise of being.” -Ursula K Le Guin “ Embassytown is a fully achieved work of art. It's definitely one of the best books I've read in the past year, perfectly balanced between escapism and otherworldly philosophizing.” -io9 The result is an intellectual adventure of the highest order, a distinguished addition to an imposingand constantly surprisingbody of work.

It is also, most centrally, a meditation on the power and infinitely varied possibilities of language itself. I cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. Embassytown is a novel about diplomacy and conflict in a vividly created alien society.

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-but which speaks through her, whether she likes it or not. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. 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.

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.