The Left Hand of Darkness

<p><b>'Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself' Zadie Smith</b></p><p><b>'Groundbreaking' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><b><br>'No single work did more to upend the genre's conventions' <i>Paris Review</i></b></p><p>A lone human emissary journeys from Earth to the planet of Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose - and change - their gender.<br><br> 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 culture he encounters.<br><br> Forced into a perilous partnership with an outcast on a journey across the planet's bitter, whirling snow, he learns how survival, trust and love take shape in a world nothing like his own.<br><br> A visionary classic,<i> The Left Hand of Darkness</i> reshaped fiction with its radical exploration of gender, human connection and power.</p><p><b>WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM DAVID MITCHELL</b></p>