01186nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200210009110000210011224500260013326000350015930000330019436500650022750000560029252006240034865000200097220230616101809.0211005b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781473221628  cAL  aeng  223a813.54bGUIL  aUrsula K Le Guin  aLeft hand of darkness  aOrion PublishingbLondonc2017  axvii,304p.bPBc19.5x12.5cm.  2GeneralaBBP2557b₹509.15c₹d₹599.00e15%f27-09-2021  aWinner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel  aGenly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet Gethen, a world perpetually in winter. The people there are androgynous, normally neuter, but they can become male ot female at the peak of their sexual cycle. They seem to Genly Ai alien, unsophisticated and confusing. But he is drawn into the complex politics of the planet and, during a long, tortuous journey across the ice with a politician who has fallen from favor and has been outcast, he loses his professional detachment and reaches a painful understanding of the true nature of Gethenians and, in a moving and memorable sequence, even finds love.  aScience fiction