Embassytown /
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| Summary: | Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens. |
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| Physical Description: | 345 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780345524492 (hbk. : acid-free paper) 0345524497 (hbk. : acid-free paper) 9780345524515 (ebk.) 0345524519 (ebk.) |