Description
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, lives on Anarres, an arid moon settled two centuries ago by anarchist exiles who built a society without government, property, or law. When his work on a revolutionary theory of time is stifled by the conformity creeping into his supposedly free world, he makes an unprecedented choice: he travels to Urras, the wealthy, capitalist mother planet his people fled. There he is feted, courted, and watched, and forced to confront the promise and failures of both worlds. Le Guin's "ambiguous utopia" is a profound exploration of freedom, solidarity, and the walls, visible and invisible, that societies build around themselves.
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Harper Voyager
Published Oct 20, 1994
400 pages
ISBN: 9780061054884
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Millennium
Published Jan 1, 1999
318 pages
ISBN: 9781857988826
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Unknown
Published Jan 1, 1974
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Unknown
Published Jan 1, 1974
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First Published
1974
Language
eng
Featured in Challenges
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.