Miéville's characters are deftly sketched, and his narrator-protagonist, Avice, is a subtler portrait than she seems at first. She praises Mieville for his treatment of his female narrator, Avice: One of Le Guin's signature books, "The Left Hand of Darkness," is a pentetrating and deeply imaginative consideration of gender roles. The problem of communication, the nature of language and of spoken truth, is the novel's core. How will we talk to somebody really different – aliens? The Ariekei of Embassytown are immensely unlike us. There are men right now who have never learned how to talk to women. " Embassytown is a fully achieved work of art," writes the great novelist Ursula K Le Guin in her review of the novel for the Guardian. In my recent review, I wrote that China Mieville's "Embassytown" was "the most engrossing book I've read this year." I'm not only the one impressed by the latest offering from Britain's youngish master of fantasy, horror and the weird.
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