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The Left Hand of Darkness

A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece
  • Author
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
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  • Published: Sep 20 2018
  • 196 x 130mm
  • ISBN: 9781473225947
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell

'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new'

Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to leave his beloved homeland; the other is fleeing from a different kind of persecution. What they have in common is curiosity, about others and themselves, and an almost unshakeable belief that the world can be a better place.

As they journey for over 800 miles, across the harshest, most inhospitable landscape, they discover the true meaning of friendship, and of love.
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Press Reviews

  • Neil Gaiman

    It's a giant thought experiment that's also a cracking good read about gender
  • David Mitchell

    Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart
  • David Mitchell

    Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart
  • Guardian
    A rich and complex story of friendship and love
  • Zadie Smith

    Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their center ... Literature will miss her. There's no one like her