by Jack Vance · TRES I QUATRE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475022369
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«Els llenguatges de Pao» is the science fiction novel by Jack Vance, published by Tres i Quatre in paperback (248 pages, in Catalan).
On the planet Pao, a peaceful and stagnant society, the murder of the panarch forces his son Beran to flee to Breakness, a world of dominant scholars. There he discovers that his uncle Bustamonte has imposed artificial languages to reshape society into castes. Beran returns to his planet to reclaim the throne and dismantle the linguistic experiment.
This edition is the Catalan translation of The Languages of Pao (1957) and was published in 1992 in the El Grill collection.
For readers of classic science fiction interested in novels where language functions as a tool of power and transforms entire societies.
John Holbrook Vance was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and mysteries. He wrote several mystery novels under pen names, including Ellery Queen.
