Embassytown
By: China Miéville
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780345524492; 9780345524515
Subjects: Fiction; Space warfare; Human-alien encounters; Loyalty; Life on other planets
Description: 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.