The left hand of darkness
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-20182017
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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...
Main title:
The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin.
Author:
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author
Imprint:
London : Gollancz, 2017.©2017
Collation:
xvii, 304 pages ; 20 cm
Series title:
ISBN:
9781473221628 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
410104
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST RYDE | ADULT FICTION | F LEGUScience Fiction | HSC Prescribed Text - Do not discard (Set: 21 Jan 2022)On reserve shelf at WEST RYDE |