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The Birthday of the World : And Other Stories by Ursula K Le Guin; Overdrive Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, this renowned writer has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World , this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity. Here are stories that explore complex social interactions and troublesome issues of gender and sex; that define and defy notions of personal relationships and of society itself; that examine loyalty, survival, and introversion; that bring to light the vicissitudes of slavery and the meaning of transformation, religion, and history. The first six tales in this spectacular volume are set in the author's signature world of the Ekumen, "my pseudo-coherent universe with holes in the elbows," as Le Guin describes it -- a world made familiar in her award-winning novel T

Who reads The Birthday of the World : And Other Stories?

Author

Ursula K Le Guin; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060085360

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Literary Collections, Fiction

Rating

4.27 / 5 (50 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13