The enthralling new novel from the award-winning author of Kraken and The City & The City
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.
Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie.
Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes.
Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts.
And that is impossible.
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China Miéville es un escritor de éxito internacional. Entre sus novelas destacan La ciudad y la ciudad, Embassytown y La estación de la calle Perdido. Su carrera ha sido distinguida con los premios literarios más prestigiosos, como el Arthur C. Clarke (es el único escritor que lo ha ganado en tres ocasiones), el Locus (cuatro veces), el World Fantasy o el Hugo; y es admirado por autores de la talla de Neil Gaiman, Carlos Ruiz Zafón o Ursula K. Le Guin.