The Language of Liars, by S. L. Huang: a discussion on Colonialism, Translation, and the Lies we tell ourselves

I recently finished this book and I cannot stop thinking about it. Hard Sci-Fi is not my usual read, but I don't avoid it either. From the first few pages, I knew I was in deep waters; the author dunked me into an alien world with few explanations, and initially I felt myself drowning--little did I know that I can learn to breathe water. The protagonist of our story is Ro: a mammalian-like creature from a small moon called Orro. His species is endowed with exceptional empathic abilities, and he's also a ver