The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories
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Ursula K. Le Guin. (2019). The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ursula K. Le Guin. 2019. The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories. Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories. Recorded Books, Inc, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ursula K. Le Guin. The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2019.
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Starred review from January 14, 2002
Deeply concerned with gender, these eight stories, although ostensibly about aliens, are all about ourselves: love, sex, life and alienation are all handled with illuminating grace. Le Guin's overarching theme, the journey, informs her characters as they struggle to come to terms with themselves or their worlds. The journey can be literal, as in "Paradises Lost," set on a generational ship, where the inhabitants, living in a utopia, learn they will land on the planet their ancestors set out to colonize 40 years earlier; and as in "Unchosen Love," where a young man falls in love with someone in another country and must decide if he can build a new life in a new place. Or the journey can be figurative, as in "Coming of Age in Karhide," in which an adolescent in a genderless society enters sexual maturity; and in "Solitude," as outsiders visit and study a planet where the men and women live apart and a young woman seeks to perfect her soul in the only place she knows as home. In "The Birthday of the World," the nature of God is considered as hereditary rulers, literal gods to their subjects, give up their power when new gods—aliens—come, throwing their culture into chaos.Gender is a constant concern: "The Matter of Seggri" takes place on a planet where women greatly outnumber men, and in "Unchosen Love" and "Mountain Ways," society is based on complex marriage relationships comprising four people. Le Guin handles these difficult topics through her richly drawn characters and her believable worlds. Evocative, richly textured and lyrically written, this collection is a must-read for Le Guin's fans. (Mar. 13)FYI:Winner of five Hugo and five Nebula awards as well as a National Book Award, Le Guin published two major books last year,
Tales from Earthsea and
The Other Wind.
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