Speaker for the Dead

Ender Wiggin's story is a tale of tragedy and triumph, of humanity and inhumanity, of intolerance and tolerance. In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens ways are strange and frightening... again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery... and the truth. Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is a poignant tale not just of civilization's fragility but also of its power —the power of compassionate understanding to right past wrongs.