The Lathe Of Heaven Av Ursula K. Le Guin

<p><b>''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 centre ... Literature will miss her. There''s no one like her'' Zadie Smith<br></b><br><b>''Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power'' OBSERVER</b><br><br><b>Through his dreams, George Orr can make alternate realities real - but who is controlling him?</b><br><br>War rages and global warming wreaks havoc on the quality of life everywhere as seven billion people jostle for living space and food. For George Orr, a mild and unremarkable man, the world is overwhelmingly difficult. But George is different: his dreams can change reality - although he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power.<br><br>Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help, directing George to dream a world without racism. But as ambition gets the better of ethics, no one can predict the deva