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Always Coming Home

By Ursula K. Le Guin
Series: S.F. Masterworks
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Set in a distant future, Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin offers a unique blend of narrative and anthropological exploration, introducing readers to the Kesh people. Le Guin presents fragments of their culture, stories, songs, and customs in a richly imagined post-apocalyptic world. It paints a vivid picture of an idyllic society deeply connected with the land, focusing more on life patterns and cultural nuances than on traditional plot-driven storytelling.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy immersive world-building and exploring future societies through a blend of storytelling, poetry, and anthropological studies. Ursula K. Le Guin crafts a rich tapestry of life, culture, and philosophy, inviting readers to delve into the lives of a peaceful people and their relationship with nature and technology. Ideal for those who appreciate intricate narratives that challenge the boundaries of traditional science fiction and fantasy.

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Always Coming Home

An unsung masterpiece from one of fantastic literature's greatest writers.

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A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh.

But Always Coming Home is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories, poems, songs, recipes. Always Coming Home is no less than an anthropological account of a community that does not yet exist, a tour de force of imaginative fiction by one of modern literature's great voices.

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Ursula K. Le Guin's novel is praised for its lyrical and luminous writing, offering a major imaginative vision according to The New York Times Book Review. Newsweek highlights the book as both appealing and masterfully crafted, with an awesomely complex future world. People magazine describes the novel's effect on the reader as hypnotic, noting Le Guin's original method of unveiling her imagined land.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781473205802

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 July 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Gollancz

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 45.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 380g

Pages: 544

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Fiction General Fiction Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction Series: S.F. Masterworks Ursula K. Le Guin

About the Author

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor. Among her novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the six books of Earthsea have attained undisputed classic status; and her recent series, the Annals of the Western Shore, has won her the PEN Center USA Children's literature award and the Nebula Award for best novel. In 2014 Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lived in Portland, Oregon, until she passed away in January 2018.

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