The Left Hand of Darkness

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DESCRIPTION : 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 b ecome 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... PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781473221628 BY (AUTHOR) LeGuin, Ursula K. PUBLISHER : Orion Publishing Co PUBLICATION DATE : April 13, 2017 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Gollancz LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 196 mm x 126 mm WEIGHT : 240 g SERIES : S.F. Masterworks PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items Show more