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The Left Hand of Darkness - Hardcover
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The Left Hand of Darkness
$23.49
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Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Thoughtful, Atmospheric, Melancholy
- Kind of story
- Literary science fiction, Classic
- About
- Identity, Friendship, Survival, Queer stories
- Pace
- Slow burn
- How dark
- 2 of 5. A little dark
- Romance
- A subplot
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Featured in our reading guide: Where to Start with Ursula K. Le Guin
An envoy comes to a frozen world whose people have no fixed sex, and has to learn to see them as they are.
Shelf note: Slow to start and worth every page. The trek across the ice is one of the great passages in the genre.
Genly Ai has come to the planet Gethen to invite its nations into an interstellar alliance. The Gethenians can become either male or female, and Genly's assumptions keep failing him. When politics turns against him, he and a disgraced Gethenian politician make a desperate journey across the ice.
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and one of the landmarks of science fiction. This hardcover includes an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
Details
- Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780143111597
Praise
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Kirkus Reviews
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[A] science fiction masterpiece.
Newsweek
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No single work did more to upend the genre's conventions than The Left Hand of Darkness.
The Paris Review
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