The Eye of the Heron

This was just a tiny little novel, but just packed with stuff I love. Individual characters, compelling and interesting, but also embodying different political dogmas, the plot itself so packed with inherent symbolism that it shouldn't have been so light and natural. All coming together in a clean f......more

Si hay una palabra que me viene a la mente con esta novela es: desarraigo. Es una constante en todo el libro. Desarraigo del planeta de origen, de la comunidad, de la familia, de las costumbres, de lo establecido... Bajo una trama aparentemente sencilla, Le Guin explora el aspecto más ideológico del......more

Ursula Le Guin manages to pack a lot into just-shy-of 180 pages in a story about two communities struggling to survive and co-exist on a penal colony. One community, the City, was settled by war criminals, rebels against an Earth government. In the century or so since their arrival on Victoria, they......more

Ursula Le Guin's The Eye of the Heron looks like an easy, short book. My copy is quite slim, the writing is a reasonable size, and the prose is as polished as hers always is, and it's easy to read. There are some absolutely amazing quotes, that I loved to read just for the perspective she always bri......more

3 Stars for The Eye of the Heron (audiobook) by Ursula K. LeGuin read by Christina Moore. The world in this book seemed interesting but there wasn’t enough of it. The story just ended up being about resisting the authority.......more