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Embassy City Book Description

Embassy City by China Miéville, the only author to win the Arthur C. Clarke Prize, considered the "Nobel" of science fiction and fantasy literature, three times; A strange region where linguistics and politics are intertwined, a work of art where the author's intellectual, fictional and formal competence reaches its peak. The book was selected as Best Science Fiction Novel and won the Locus Award in 2012.

Centering on a world within Always on the shores of Sometimes, Embassy City invites its readers to a unique diving adventure in time and space. The novel is set on the planet Arieka, where humans, exotics, and a peculiar species, the Hosts, live together. The sole executors of communication between these different species living in Arieka are the Ambassadors, who are products of genetic engineering; until another unexpected Messenger arrives there... The main character of the book, diver Avice Benner Cho, is as complex and mysterious as Arieka, to whom he returns after his adventures and experiences in Outside. For the people of Ariek, it is a "parable". In this novel, in which Miéville focuses on the power of language and the possibilities of language that open to infinity, he deals with a subtle diplomacy and the disruption of the delicate balances that hold differences together with the arrival of the new ambassador; On the other hand, we are witnessing the birth pains of a new balance. With Avice, who now has neither a love she can trust nor a home she can feel safe in, and is being dragged on a slippery ground with all the odds...

"It is a source of joy to see this young writer stand out and take the art of science fiction out of the inertia that has trapped it between the regressiveness of publishing, which has lately invested in 'safe' readership, and the astonishing promises of change and development that postmodernism offers with all its forms and formlessness. Embassy City is fully competent." a work of art." Ursula
-K. Le Guin-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 416

Year of Print: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yordam Literature

First Print Year: 2016

Language Turkish