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Embassytown

Miéville, China. (Author).

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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  • ISBN: 9780345524515 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0345524519 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    1 online resource
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c2011.

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B004J4WLU0 (Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN))
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Subject: Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
Life on other planets -- Fiction
Space warfare -- Fiction
Loyalty -- Fiction
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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