The Dispossessed
by Ursula. K Le Guin
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336
1 Nov 1999
Paperback
Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Gollancz
9781857988826
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
'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.
This novel takes aim at one of sci-fi's primordial questions: How might we, having seen another world, look again upon our own? Le Guin's insights into the interaction between society and the soul, character and Capital, have never been sharper and her prose never been more capable of turning our gaze toward the world around us with a rekindled sense of wonder and, perhaps more terrible, responsibility.
Tony, Unity Books wellington
