Always Coming Home A Novel

"Midway through her career, Ursula K. Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary projects, a novel that took more than five years to complete. Blending story and fable, poetry, artwork, and song, Always Coming Home is this legendary writer's fictional ethnography of the Kesh, a people of the far future living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. Having survived ecological catastrophe brought on by relentless industrialization, the Kesh are a peaceful people who reject governance and the constriction of genders, limit population growth to prevent overcrowding and preserve resources, and maintain a healthy community in which everyone works to contribute to its well-being. This richly imagined story unfolds through a series of narrated "translations" that illuminate individual lives, including a woman named Stone Telling, who travels beyond the Valley and comes to reside with another tribe, the patriarchal Condor peopl

ISBN:	9780358726920
Publisher:	Harper Perennial
Imprint:	Harper Perennial
Published date:	06 Jun 2023
DEWEY:	813.54
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	cm
Weight:	454g
Height:	203mm
Width:	135mm

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