Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Left Hand of Darkness
Buch
- Verlag:
- Penguin LLC US, 03/1987
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780441478125
- Artikelnummer:
- 2056075
- Umfang:
- 368 Seiten
- Ausgabe:
- Repr.
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2003
- Gewicht:
- 198 g
- Maße:
- 188 x 108 mm
- Stärke:
- 30 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 15.3.1987
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Beschreibung
When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune - and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society is more than merely a fascinating creation. The concept of a society existing totally without sexual prejudices is even more relevant today than it was in 1969. This special 25th anniversary edition of The Left Hand of Darkness contains not only the complete, unaltered text of the landmark original but also a thought-provoking new afterword and four new appendixes by Ms. Le Guin.
When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue - a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither. This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life. But Genly is all too human. Unless he can overcome his ingrained prejudices about the significance of "male" and "female," he may destroy both his mission and himself.
Klappentext
50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION-WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERSUrsula K. Le Guin's groundbreaking work of science fiction-winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants' gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters...
Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
Biografie
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 in Kalifornien geboren, gehört zu den höchstdekorierten zeitgenössischen Schriftstellerinnen Amerikas. Ihre Romane Winterplanet und Planet der Habenichste wurden jeweils mit dem Hugo und dem Nebula Award als beste Romane des Jahres ausgezeichnet. Mit dem Erdsee-Zyklus schuf sie das herausragendste singuläre Werk der modernen Fantasy. Ihr Gesamtwerk, das auch Gedichte, Kinderbücher und Essays umfaßt, wurde mit allen bedeutenden Genre-Preisen geehrt und war u. a. für den National Book Award, den American Book Award und den Pulitzerpreis nominiert.Mehr von Ursula K. Le Guin
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