![]() ![]() ![]() The payment that Zakalwe demands is the location of a woman, named Livueta. He must make contact with Beychae, an old colleague, who lives in a politically unstable star cluster, to further the aims of the Culture in the region. The forward-moving narrative stream deals with the attempts of Diziet Sma and a drone named Skaffen-Amtiskaw (of Special Circumstances, a division of Contact) to re-enlist Zakalwe for another job. Further complicating this structure is a prologue and epilogue set shortly after the events of the main narrative, and many flashbacks within the chapters. The story told by the former moves forward chronologically (as the numbers suggest) and tells a self-contained story, while the latter is written in reverse chronology with each chapter successively earlier in Zakalwe's life. ), while the other is numbered in reverse with Roman numerals (XIII, XII. ![]() The numbers of the chapters indicate which stream they belong to: one stream is numbered forward in words (One, Two. ![]() The book is made up of two narrative streams, interwoven in alternating chapters. ![]()
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