The Left Hand of Darkness
A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Published:13th Apr '17
Should be back in stock very soon
The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpiece from one of the all-time greats of Science Fiction.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David MitchellGenly 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...
One of the best science fiction novels ever written -- George R.R. Martin
A jewel of a story -- Frank Herbert
Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself -- Zadie Smith
Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart
The exquisite prose . . . sings with every step. It is one thing to write a good story, or a great story. It is a whole other accomplishment, for an author of fiction, to write a true story -- Becky Chambers
A rich and complex story of friendship and love * Guardian *
One of the most extraordinary examples of soft-core sf . . . reflects the author's formidable background in anthropology as well as her overriding ethical and artistic concerns * New York Times *
No single story did more to upend the genre's conventions * Paris Review *
Le Guin's novel imagines how bridges can be built, chasms crossed. By the end, the book has changed us. Thus, the author not only demonstrates how to build worlds. She shows why we build worlds in the first place. * Tor.com *
As profuse and original in invention as The Lord of the Rings -- Michael Moorcock
Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart -- David Mitchell
- Winner of Nebula Award 1970 (UK)
ISBN: 9781473221628
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 26mm
Weight: 236g
336 pages