Five Ways to Forgiveness
By Ursula K. Le Guin
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A companion to Ursula K. Le Guin’s award-winning Hainish Novels—including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed—Five Ways to Forgiveness tells the story of the planet Werel and its colony planet Yeowe, and how their societies are shaped by the legacies of slavery and revolution. When the enslaved people on Yeowe rebel and overthrow the slave-owning class, the owners on neighboring Werel launch a war to preserve the master-slave society that undergirds the economy of both planets. Told from the perspectives of those caught in the crosshairs of this struggle—a retired schoolteacher, an off-world ambassador, an enslaved woman, and a historian—the stories in this collection are linked by a mysterious figure called Old Music, an ambassador who is secretly working as an abolitionist and supporter of Yeowe’s liberation. First published in 1994 as Four Ways to Forgiveness, this is the first standalone edition that includes the fifth story, “Old Music and the Slave Women,” that Le Guin wrote years after to augment this extraordinary, vital suite.
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A companion to Ursula K. Le Guin’s award-winning Hainish Novels—including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed—Five Ways to Forgiveness tells the story of the planet Werel and its colony planet Yeowe, and how their societies are shaped by the legacies of slavery and revolution.
When the enslaved people on Yeowe rebel and overthrow the slave-owning class, the owners on neighboring Werel launch a war to preserve the master-slave society that undergirds the economy of both planets. Told from the perspectives of those caught in the crosshairs of this struggle—a retired schoolteacher, an off-world ambassador, an enslaved woman, and a historian—the stories in this collection are linked by a mysterious figure called Old Music, an ambassador who is secretly working as an abolitionist and supporter of Yeowe’s liberation.
First published in 1994 as Four Ways to Forgiveness, this is the first standalone edition that includes the fifth story, “Old Music and the Slave Women,” that Le Guin wrote years after to augment this extraordinary, vital suite.
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Author Bio: Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author of novels, children’s books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry, literary criticism, and essays. She was widely recognized as one of the greatest science fiction writers in the history of the genre. She won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards on several occasions, as well as the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, and many other honors and prizes. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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| Available Formats : | CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 10.97 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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