Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.
Sequel to Le Guin's brilliant 'Gifts', the second in her Annals of the Western Shore. Le Guin is one of the finest fantasy writers of our time, the author of the Earthsea books that are enduring children's classics.
Shevak, a brilliant scientist, wants to tear down the wall of hatred that has isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. So he journeys to the utopian Urras in an attempt to ignite the fires of change.