![]() Like all great fiction, it rewards re-reading with its richness of detail in the worlds and people it explores. ![]() While this is no action plot, the novel brings these two stories together in a deeply moving way at the end. ![]() The Dispossessed presents parallel stories in alternating chapters of Shevek’s efforts to bring his work to the planet of Urras and of his earlier life on Anarres, its sister planet. Themes like coming home, the double-edged problems of walls and barriers that separate people, the difficulty of adapting human nature to a utopian ideal of society, the excesses of capitalism, the complexity of gender and love and, perhaps most centrally, the roles societies of all types impose on individuals.įor this is the story of Shevek, a brilliant temporal physicist who tries to bring two worlds together through the objectivity of science, only to meet frustration and rejection. ![]() ![]() It brings together so many of her themes in a complex story that is beautifully written and deeply engaging. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed is a treasure - along with The Left Hand of Darkness and The Lathe of Heaven, I think, her finest work in science fiction. ![]()
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