Längst bak i pocketutgåvan av Kraken står följande
att läsa om Embassytown:
<<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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Låter lovande!
Yrs
Malbeth