So he leaves his homeland, hoping to find a place of more liberty and tolerance. Shevek is brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time – but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do anything to block him. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on…’ Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. It did not look important – even a child could climb it. ‘ Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power’ OBSERVER ‘The book I wish I had written … It’s so far away from my own imagination, I’d love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin’ Roddy Doyle ‘A well told tale signifying a good deal one to be read again and again’ THE TIMES One of the very best must-read novels of all time – with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle
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