Embassytown
Autor China Mievilleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2011
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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 but which speaks through her, whether she likes it or not."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780345524508
ISBN-10: 0345524500
Pagini: 345
Dimensiuni: 137 x 211 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Del Rey Books
ISBN-10: 0345524500
Pagini: 345
Dimensiuni: 137 x 211 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Del Rey Books
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Recenzii
PRAISE FOR CHINA MIeVILLE
Embassytown
"I cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. It's definitely one of the best books I've read in the past year, perfectly balanced between escapism and otherworldly philosophizing." --Io9.com
"Embassytown is a fully achieved work of art...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
"A breakneck tale of suspense...disturbing and beautiful by turns. And yes--China Mieville's new novel is one of his best...I cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is."
--io9
"The Kafkaesque writer journeys to the distant edges of the universe in his latest sci-fi thriller."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Utterly astonishing...A major intellectual achievement."
"A fully achieved work of art."--Ursula K. Le Guin
"The most engrossing book I've read this year, and the latest evidence that brilliant, challenging, rewarding writing of the highest order is just as likely to be found in the section labeled Science Fiction as the one marked Literature.""--"Jim Higgins, "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
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"Original, sophisticated, bristling with subversive ideas, and filled with unforgettably alien images . . . an amazing, sometimes brutal rhapsody on the uses of language.""--The Christian Science Monitor"
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"Richly conceived . . . "Embassytown" has the feel of a word-puzzle, and much of the pleasure of figuring out the logic of the world and the story comes from gradually catching the full resonance of its invented and imported words.""--The New York Times Book Review"
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"MiEville's swing-for-the-fences gusto thrills. This is Big Idea Sci-Fi at its most propulsively readable.""--Entertainment Weekly"
"MiEville [is] one of today's most exciting fabulist writers.""--Los Angeles Times"
Embassytown
"I cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. It's definitely one of the best books I've read in the past year, perfectly balanced between escapism and otherworldly philosophizing." --Io9.com
"Embassytown is a fully achieved work of art...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
"A breakneck tale of suspense...disturbing and beautiful by turns. And yes--China Mieville's new novel is one of his best...I cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is."
--io9
"The Kafkaesque writer journeys to the distant edges of the universe in his latest sci-fi thriller."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Utterly astonishing...A major intellectual achievement."
"A fully achieved work of art."--Ursula K. Le Guin
"The most engrossing book I've read this year, and the latest evidence that brilliant, challenging, rewarding writing of the highest order is just as likely to be found in the section labeled Science Fiction as the one marked Literature.""--"Jim Higgins, "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
" "
"Original, sophisticated, bristling with subversive ideas, and filled with unforgettably alien images . . . an amazing, sometimes brutal rhapsody on the uses of language.""--The Christian Science Monitor"
" "
"Richly conceived . . . "Embassytown" has the feel of a word-puzzle, and much of the pleasure of figuring out the logic of the world and the story comes from gradually catching the full resonance of its invented and imported words.""--The New York Times Book Review"
" "
"MiEville's swing-for-the-fences gusto thrills. This is Big Idea Sci-Fi at its most propulsively readable.""--Entertainment Weekly"
"MiEville [is] one of today's most exciting fabulist writers.""--Los Angeles Times"
Notă biografică
China Mieville is the author of several books, including "Perdido Street Station, The City & The City, "and "Kraken." His works have won the Hugo, the British Science Fiction Award (twice), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (three times) and the World Fantasy Award. He lives and works in London."From the Hardcover edition.""
Descriere
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
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 but which speaks through her, whether she likes it or not."
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 but which speaks through her, whether she likes it or not."
Premii
- Nebula Awards Nominee, 2011
- Locus Awards Winner, 2012
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award Third Place, 2012
- Hugo Award Nominee, 2012