01328cam a2200301 4500 606427402 TxAuBib 20151006120000.0 110121s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011002854 9780345524492 hardcover : acid-free paper $26.00 0345524497 hardcover : acid-free paper $26.00 DLC DLC BTCTA UPZ CO3 YDXCP TxAuBib Mi©♭ville, China. Embassytown / China Mi©♭ville. Embassy town. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2011. 345 p. ; 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. 20110915. Human-alien encounters Fiction. Life on other planets Fiction. Space warfare Fiction. Loyalty Fiction. Fiction ordered April 2011. TXNAV