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The Left Hand Of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1969
Pages
Pages 300

An envoy from a federation of worlds arrives on an ice-bound planet whose people shift between male and female once a month, and after a betrayal and imprisonment, treks across the killing ice with a native friend who dies getting him home.

Light is the left hand of darkness, and darkness the right hand of light.
The Left Hand Of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin

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