{"product_id":"2940169124668","title":"Embassytown","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eEmbassytown\u003c\/i\u003e, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAvice 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161206014192,"sku":"2940169124668","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169124668_p0.jpg?v=1763761546","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169124668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}