A cutting-edge novel about the nature of communication and what it means to be human.

In a quite British research institute, Chris Sols is investigating a strange language whose grammar could open up the vast psychic potential of the human mind. In the depths of the Brazilian jungle, an Indian tribe is discovered, speaking a rhapsodic drug-induced tongue. And in Earth's orbit, alien beings monitor our planet, effortlessly mastering the proliferation of human languages. What they offer is extraordinary. But will their price be too high?