In short, this experience became codified in the alien mother tongue of the Ariekei, who are colloquially referred to as Hosts.
It’s a story about a woman named Avice Brenner Cho who had an experience that was turned into a simile (yes, in language) for an alien audience known as the Ariekei on the planet Arieka. I think the more mature you are and the more worldview that you have will contribute to any enjoyment of this book. I think I’m glad I waited this long to read Embassytown because it is a somewhat difficult book about language and diplomacy set in an alien world. So I let the pages of Embassytown yellow in the light of the sun in my apartment until I recently rediscovered the book in a pile of other books (hardcovers all) that I hadn’t read. In the end, I was disappointed because the book - and here’s a bit of a spoiler alert - turns into one big screed against rape, as if we didn’t know that was a bad thing. While that novel was atmospheric and evocative, I found the narrative of Perdido Street Station hard to parse because the description of the setting was so foreign. I had previously read Miéville’s much-lauded and award-winning Perdido Street Station sometime before and found that I understood very little of it. I don’t know if scared is the right word, but I felt intimidated by it. I was intrigued by a review that I read in Entertainment Weekly of the book back in the day but held off on actually cracking it open as I was …. I am a man of many confessions, so here’s one to add to the list: I bought China Miéville’s Embassytown when it was originally released in hardcover way back in 2011 but have only now gotten around to reading it.
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