EMBASSYTOWN
Book ID/图书代码： 12844010B43741
English Summary/英文概要： 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 Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.
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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在未来，人类已经移入殖民至一个遥远的星球，迁居于一个神秘的Ariekei，有着宇宙中独特语言的生物群落，只有少数人能向人类使者那样对话。
Avice Benner Cho，一位人类殖民者，历经了常年的宇宙探险之后，返回了使馆镇。她不会说Ariekei的语言，但她却有着不可替代的地位，很久前，这位殖民者用独特的修辞，生动的明喻诠释着他们的语言。
当针对Arieka一位新大使的，遥远政治阴谋开始实施时，人类和外星人本就脆弱的关系，破裂了。大难即将临头，而Avice在这场忠诚之战中备受煎熬，她和丈夫的爱也已经荡然无存，而她也不再信任这个现行的体系，而鉴于她目前所处的地位，她也无法直白地表达自己的想法。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：“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.”---Kirkus Reviews
“Brilliant storytelling…The result is a world masterfully wrecked and rebuilt.”---Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author/作者介绍： 柴纳·米耶维（China Mieville），1972年生于英格兰诺里奇，先后就读于剑桥大学，伦敦政经学院，哈佛大学。最后于伦敦政经学院获国际法学博士，博士论文为《对等权利之间：国际法的马克思主义理论》。
1998年出版处女作《鼠王》。2000-2004年相继出版了巴斯-莱格三部曲。2007年《伪伦敦》。2009年《城与城》。2010年‘Kraken’。2011年‘Embassytown’。2012年‘Railsea’。
其中巴斯-莱格三部曲获多项科幻小说奖提名并获得了‘阿瑟·克拉克奖’、‘英国科幻小说奖’等。而《城与城》获得2010年的‘雨果奖’。China Miéville is the author of King Rat; Perdido Street Station, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award; The Scar, winner of the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award; Iron Council, winner of the Locus Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Looking for Jake, a collection of short stories; and Un Lun Dun, his New York Times bestselling book for younger readers. He lives and works in London.
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