01251nam a22002177a 4500 20230616101809.0 211005b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781473221628 AL eng 23 813.54 GUIL Ursula K Le Guin 785 Left hand of darkness Orion Publishing London 2017 xvii,304p. PB 19.5x12.5cm. General BBP2557 ₹509.15 ₹ ₹599.00 15% 27-09-2021 Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel Genly 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. Science fiction 786 ddc BK 216494 216494