Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Telling", Final Novel in the Hainish Cycle, Advanced Reading Copy

Ursula K. Le Guin

First Edition

[Sci-Fi][Literature][Anti-Imperialism] Le Guin, Ursula K. The Telling. New York: Harcourt, 2000. Advance Reading Copy. Perfect-bound in original illustrated wraps with the words “ADVANCE READING COPY” printed along the lower front panel. Issued ahead of the first edition, this Advance Reading Copy precedes the publication of the final novel in Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle, a loosely connected series that includes some of her most famous novels, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. In The Telling, Le Guin returns to one of the recurring themes in her work - the preservation of cultural memory and the resistance to authoritarian erasure. The Telling is the story of Sutty, an Earth-born observer on the planet Aka. Influenced by the suppression of Taoism during Maoist China, the novel examines how totalitarian regimes and rigid fundamentalism attempt to replace the search for truth with sanctioned orthodoxy, punishing those who question. For Le Guin, “the telling of the story” becomes both the literal and symbolic act of survival. As in her most celebrated works, she deploys anthropological worldbuilding to explore power, resistance, and the sustaining force of narrative, aligning The Telling with the feminist, anti-imperialist, and cross-cultural inquiries that defined her career. Covers bright and uncreased, text block clean and tight. A near fine copy of this powerful tale of anti-imperialism and indigenous resistance.

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