The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

A collection of spellbinding stories from the inimitable Ursula K. Le Guin

'Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself' Zadie Smith

'Beautiful, profound, irresistible' Robert Silverberg

'Complex and haunting . remarkable' Time

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters.

Now, in The Birthday of the World, she returns to these worlds in eight brilliant stories, each of which probes the essence of humanity.

Here are stories that explore complex social interactions and troublesome issues of gender and sex; that define and defy notions of personal relationships and of society itself; that examine loyalty, survival and introversion; that bring to light the vicissitudes of slavery and the meaning of transformation, religion and history.

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