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020			_a9781473221628
040			_cSAC
041			_aeng
082			_223 _a813.54 _bGUIL
100			_aUrsula K. Le Guin _955059
100			_dGUIN (Ursula K. Le) _9517
245			_aLeft hand of darkness
260			_aLondon _bOrion Publishing Group Ltd _c2017
300			_axii, 304p. _bPB _c10.67 x 2.31 x 19.3 cm.
365			_a2557 _b509 _c₹ _d599 _e15% _f27-09-2021
500			_awinner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel
520			_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 or 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 favour 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…
650			_aScience Fiction _9518
650			_2Novel
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c216426 _d216426