The Left Hand of Darkness
a groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece
$24.43
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2018
Summary
“A rich and complex story of friendship and love” - GUARDIAN
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to leave his beloved homeland; the other is fleeing from a different kind of persecution. What they have in common is curiosity, about others and themselves, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473225947 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473225949 |
| Author: | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 26mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
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It’s a giant thought experiment that’s also a cracking good read about gender
Set against a background of state-fuelled anxieties about the loss of power and national identity … With immense subtlety, Le Guin describes the changes in a relationship that almost founders on misapprehensions and mistakes …The Left Hand of Darkness is a rich and complex story of friendship and love - GUARDIAN
Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own - BOSTON GLOBENo single work did more to upend the genre’s conventions than The Left Hand of Darkness … Writers as diverse as Zadie Smith and Algis Budrys have cited [it] as an influence - PARIS REVIEWIt’s a giant thought experiment that’s also a cracking good read about genderAbout 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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