5/30/2023 0 Comments A memory called empire goodreadsClarke Award and winning the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Bereft of resources and surrounded by political agents she cannot trust, Mahit must find out who killed the last ambassador before she, too, is killed and her home is taken over by the beautiful but deadly Teixcalaan Empire.Ī Memory Called Empire premiered to almost instant acclaim in 2019, going on to be nominated for the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and the Arthur C. And she’ll have to, for Mahit’s mission is to prevent the Teixcalaan Empire from absorbing Lsel Station under its banner, and she’s heading into a tempestuous political situation without the knowledge she should have, for her predecessor died under mysterious circumstances, and the information he should have left to Mahit has been lost. But Mahit speaks their language, has memorized their poetry, followed their serialized dramas, and so believes that she can blend into the culture as well as any citizen. Complex, cosmopolitan, and endlessly self-referential, Teixcalaan expands in two ways: through military conquest and through its overwhelming culture, which fascinates young people from other worlds and makes them want to be Texicalaanli, too, even as imperial citizens view anyone outside their borders as barbarians. Mahit Dzmare is a young ambassador fulfilling a lifelong ambition: to travel from her home on the independent Lsel Station to the vast Teixcalaan Empire, whose culture she has long been obsessed with.
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