Embassytown
New York : Ballantine Books, [2011]
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 345 pages ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects:
Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.
Life on other planets -- Fiction.
Space warfare -- Fiction.
Loyalty -- Fiction.
Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.
Life on other planets -- Fiction.
Space warfare -- Fiction.
Loyalty -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780345524492 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
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