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Blurb: “For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity and moral vision, creating a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters. Here, in The Birthday of the World, are eight brilliant short works, including the original novella Paradises Lost, which-probe the essence of humanity. Six of the tales are set in Le Guin's world of the Ekumen - my pseudo-coherent universe with holes in the elbows' as Le Guin describes it, which was made famous in the multi-award-winning classic novel The Left Hand of Darkness. KW
Step into the worlds powered by Le Guin's extraordinary imagination, and discover complex social interactions and troublesome issues of gender and sex, loyalty and survival, religion, history and slavery.
Discover one of the most remarkable talents writing today.
Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books have sold millions of copies in sixteen different languages. Her Hainish cycle is one of the most critically acclaimed constructs in science fiction. She is the recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo and five Nebula Awards and The World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
She lives in Portland, Oregon.”