The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
Genly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet Gethen, a world perpetually in winter. The people there are androgynous, normally neuter, but they can become male ot female at the peak of their sexual cycle. They seem to Genly Ai alien, unsophisticated and confusing. But he is drawn into the complex politics of the planet and, during a long, tortuous journey across the ice with a politician who has fallen from favour and has been outcast, he loses his professional detachment and reaches a painful understanding of the true nature of Gethenians and, in a moving and memorable sequence, even finds love...
It's a giant thought experiment that's also a cracking good read about gender -- Neil Gaiman
Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart -- David Mitchell
A rich and complex story of friendship and love * Guardian *
Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their center.. Literature will miss her. There's no one like her -- Zadie Smith
Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart -- David Mitchell
Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart -- David Mitchell
A rich and complex story of friendship and love * Guardian *
Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their center.. Literature will miss her. There's no one like her -- Zadie Smith
Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart -- David Mitchell
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA's Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781473221628 |
| ISBN 10 | 1473221625 |
| Title | The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Author | Ursula K Le Guin |
| Series | Sf Masterworks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2017-04-13 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Nebula Award 1970 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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