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The Left Hand of Darkness

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20th September 2018

Price: £9.99

Nebula Award, 1970

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781473225947

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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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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
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