The Word for World is Forest
$24.08
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2015
Summary
Echoes of Athshe: A Forest in Revolt
When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.
Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For eve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473205789 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473205786 |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
| Author: | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 14mm |
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The slender book is fairly simplistic, but it’s still compelling and thought-provoking.
Le Guin writes in quiet, straightforward sentences about people who feel they are being torn apart by massive forces in society - technological, political, economic - and who fight courageously to remain whole
- NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWLe Guin writes with painstaking intelligence. Her characters are complex and haunting, and her writing is remarkable for its sinewy grace - TIMEAbout The Author
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor. Among her novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the six books of Earthsea have attained undisputed classic status; and her recent series, the Annals of the Western Shore, has won her the PEN Center USA Children’s literature award and the Nebula Award for best novel. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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