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PUBLISHED
New York : Ballantine Books, [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
345 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780345524492 (hardcover : acid-free paper), 0345524497 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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