The Left Hand of Darkness
A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece
$25.19
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
10 August 2026
Summary
‘Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself’ Zadie Smith
‘Groundbreaking’ Guardian
‘No single work did more to upend the genre’s conventions’ Paris Review
A lone human emissary journeys from Earth to the planet of Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose - and change - their gender.
His goal is to secure Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilisation, but to do so he m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399638319 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399638319 |
| Author: | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 10 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
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Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heartA 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 SmithUrsula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart – David Mitchell
About The Author
Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
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