Description
| Product ID: | 9781473221628 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
| Title: | The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Subtitle: | A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece |
| Authors: | Author: Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Science fiction, Science fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, Adult & contemporary romance |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 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... |
| Imprint Name: | Gollancz |
| Publisher Name: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-04-13 |