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The Telling (Gollancz S.F.)

The Telling (Gollancz S.F.)

by UrsulaLeGuin (Author)

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    Hardcover 2001

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Synopsis

There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written in the old scripts has been destroyed; modern aural literature is all written to Corporation specifications. The Corporation expects Sutty to report back so the non-standardised folk stories and songs can be wiped out and the people 're-educated'. But Sutty herself is in for an education she never imagined.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 272
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 18 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 0575072571
ISBN 13: 9780575072572
Book Overview: The Hainish cycle - which includes The Disposessed, The Left Hand of Darkness and City of Illusions - is one of science fiction's master works. Ursula K Le Guin has won many Nebula and Hugo Awards, as well as the National Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, a Newberry Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. 'She wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen ... what she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love and sex' Newsweek 'Eloquent, elegant, insightful, funny, sharp and nearly always provocative' Washington Post

Author Bio
Ursula K. Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, and lives in Portland, Oregon. She has won many awards, both literary and genre, including the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.