A Mão Esquerda das Trevas
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789722329880 (972232988X)
Publish date: February 18th 2003
Publisher: Editorial Presença
Pages no: 254
Edition language: Portuguese
I did not want this to end. I feel a bit bereft, and very emotional, and somewhat fragile (even if Rocannon's World had prepared me for the possibility). And in awe. Dazzled in awe of how Le Guin can weave this beautiful settings to address concepts, limitations, canons of society, give them new per...
I like science fiction and like the idea of the androgynous race of people. The plot is cool, with the man trying to bringing them into the group of planets and trying to understand each other. I liked it.
I´ve been dragging my feet with this review. Where to begin with it? First off, I really enjoyed reading this science fiction novel. I have never read anything quite like it before. The story is still lingering on my mind and it´s been a couple of days since I finished it. Le Guin does an exceptio...
Though I last read The Left Hand of Darkness some fifteen years ago, it had been on my mind frequently as my first North Dakota winter got underway. As the temperature plummeted to -20°F (feeling even colder with the wind rushing down from the icy north), as the snow piled up in feet, as a simple wa...
The society and humans depicted in this book have fascinating sides: for instance, the subtle and complex social/political/cultural dance of 'shifgrethor'; or the fact that Gethen's inhabitants are sexually neutral most of the time, except during 'kemmer', where they get sexually active and can beco...
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