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The Dispossessed

  • Author
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
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  • Published: Oct 03 2019
  • 196 x 128mm
  • ISBN: 9781473228412
One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle

'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES

'The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin' Roddy Doyle

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Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER

The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres.

But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolerance there. But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.
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Press Reviews

  • Roddy Doyle

    THE TIMES
    The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin
  • Baird Searles

    An extraordinary work ... [Le Guin] created a working society in exquisite detail ... a fully realised hypothetical culture [as well as] living breathing characters who are inevitable products of that culture
  • THE TIMES
    A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again
  • Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
    A deeply imagined work of art
  • NEW YORK TIMES
    Le Guin's book ... is so persuasive that it ought to put a stop to the writing of prescriptive Utopias for at least 10 years
  • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
    [Le Guin had] the heart of a poet who knew all too well the difference between miracle and eureka, revelation and revolution
  • Empire
    Le Guin's storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be
  • OBSERVER
    Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power