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Embassytown

Embassytown

China Miéville

Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only life, and Avice has a bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. ...

Publisher:
Pan
Year of publication:
2012
ISBN:
978-0-330-53307-2
Pages:
404
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Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only life, and Avice has a bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie.

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