The Left Hand of Darkness
On sale
30th April 2026
Price: £10.99
Nebula Award, 1970
‘One of the literary greats of the twentieth century’ Margaret Atwood
Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to leave his beloved homeland; the other is fleeing from a different kind of persecution.
What they have in common is curiosity, about others and themselves – and an almost unshakeable belief that the world can be a better place.
As they journey for over 800 miles, across the harshest, most inhospitable landscape, they discover the true meaning of friendship, and of love.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM DAVID MITCHELL
Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to leave his beloved homeland; the other is fleeing from a different kind of persecution.
What they have in common is curiosity, about others and themselves – and an almost unshakeable belief that the world can be a better place.
As they journey for over 800 miles, across the harshest, most inhospitable landscape, they discover the true meaning of friendship, and of love.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM DAVID MITCHELL
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Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart
Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart
A rich and complex story of friendship and love
Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their center ... Literature will miss her. There's no one like her
