The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Telling

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/05/2024


Synopsis

From award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a highly anticipated addition to her acclaimed Hainish cycle, “a social anthropology of the future, fascinating and utterly believable.” (Peter S. Beagle)

Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth named Sutty has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness.
They still believe in the ancient ways and still practice its lost religion—the Telling. Intrigued by their beliefs, Sutty joins them on a sacred pilgrimage into the mountains … and into the dangerous terrain of her own heart, mind, and soul.

About Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality, and ethnography.

Ursula has influenced such Booker Prize winners and other writers as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell-and notable science fiction and fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She has resided in Portland, Oregon since 1959.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Magrat on October 03, 2019

Novela curiosa, extraña y (como siempre con Le guin) extremadamente interesante. A pesar de todo, me costó un poco conectar con ella, y no se va a convertir en mi libro preferido. Pero me parece muy recomendable si os atrae su saga del Ekumen, porque es una pieza más de ese gigantesco universo que im......more

Goodreads review by Ian on October 07, 2024

*Updated- Adds Review To Rating* 4.6⭐ Rounded Up A brilliant short novel in which Le Guin takes a riff off Orwell ( and/or possibly Katherine Burdekin?) about the intentional destruction of culture, history, memory. Her historical model, reportedly, was China's Cultural Revolution/ Great Leap Forward.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 08, 2023

This was the last book that Le Guin wrote in her Hainish cycle (and the first full novel in this universe since the excellent The Dispossessed) and it is a beautiful story about language and how stories get passed down between generations. As in many of her stories, sexuality and colonization are ma......more