The Left Hand of Darkness : A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece - Ursula K. Le Guin Science Fiction and Fantasy Having failed (and failed some

Having failed (and failed some more) to deliver her new manuscript

until her childhood friend Nessa comes back to town

' Irish Examiner

recounting the events of the First and Second Ages

The Left Hand of Darkness : A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece - Ursula K. Le Guin Science Fiction and Fantasy Having failed (and failed someGenre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself' Zadie Smith'Groundbreaking' Guardian'No single work did more to upend the genre's conventions' Paris ReviewA lone human emissary journeys from Earth to the planet of Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose and change their gender. His goal is to secure Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilisation, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and the