Book description
In this stunning collection of four intimately interconnected novellas,
Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of
America's most honored and respected authors. At the far end of our
universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is
divided into 'assets' and 'owners', tradition and liberation are at war,
and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled
as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to
become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary Abberkam, the callow
'space brat' Solly, the haughty soldier Teyeo, and the Ekumen historian
and Hainish exile Havzhiva, freedom and duty both begin in the heart,
and success as well as failure has its costs. Ursula LeGuin was born
in Berkeley, California in 1929. She attended college at Radcliffe and
Columbia, and married C. A. LeGuin in Paris in 1951. The LeGuins and
their three children live in Portland, Oregon.
