Four Ways To Forgiveness

Stories

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Four novellas by Ursula Le Guin, one of which won the Sturgeon Award for Best Short fiction, about the planets Werel and Yeowe. Civil strife and interplanetary war have ended, and now there is "freedom for all men." Women, however, remain in subservience. These stories, with their complex and fully developed characters, aim towards a mutual high regard between the sexes. Publishers Weekly says of this book, "Both sexes are treated with more balance here than in Searoad. . . . In contrast to the stridency of Searoad, Le Guin has muted her tone here. . . . "

Editions of Four Ways To Forgiveness

ISBN 9780061054013	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 1996	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780061052347	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 1995	Price $1.00	Used - Acceptable
ISBN 9780060760298	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Perennial	Date 2004	Price $8.98	NEW

Publisher Notes

At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners," tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary Abberkam, the callow "space brat" Solly, the haughty soldier Teyeo, and the Ekumen historian and Hainish exile Havzhiva, freedom and duty both begin in the heart, and success as well as failure has its costs.

In this stunning collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of America's most honored and respected authors.

Media Reviews

"I had a vacation both from writing SF and reading it. I took quite a few years off. You can O.D....After a year reading very high quality stuff [for 'The Norton Book of Science Fiction', which she edited], I said to myself, 'I've forgotten how much fun this is.' "

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