The Word for World Is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Word for World Is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Word for World Is Forest

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrator: John Skelley

Unabridged: 4 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/27/2024

Synopsis

When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.

Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back.

"Le Guin writes with painstaking intelligence. Her characters are complex and haunting, and her writing is remarkable for its sinewy grace."—TIME magazine

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 Sean Barrs on March 27, 2022

I’ve been looking for a book like this for a very long time, a book that – at its very core – tackles the environmental destruction associated with systematic imperialism. Now let me try to unpack that a little. I write these words as my own home (my planet) is being destroyed by mass scale consumer......more

Goodreads review by Repellent on February 20, 2021

Ya puedo decir alto y claro que me he estrenado por la puerta grande con Ursula K. Le Guin. ¡Vaya gustazo más grande! Llevaba años queriendo iniciarme con la autora, aunque no tenía muy claro cual sería una buena opción. Al inicio dudaba entre "La mano izquierda de la oscuridad" y "Los desposeídos".......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on November 24, 2017

3.5 stars, rounding up. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: In The Word for World is Forest, Ursula Le Guin’s 1972 Hugo Award-winning novella, she works out her frustrations with the Vietnam War, colonialism, and ecologically insensitive societies. The human colonists on the world Athsh......more

Goodreads review by Justo on April 03, 2024

4/5 Estrellas El hombre enfrentado a su naturaleza autodestructiva y cainita. El hombre ante el espejo del colonialismo y las guerras imperialistas. La civilización tecnológica enfrentada a los nativos defendiendo su territorio y su cultura en forma de guerrilla en zonas selváticas. La buena de Úrsula......more

Goodreads review by Ben on June 05, 2018

Much as I'm in agreement with this book's message of environmentalism and nonviolence, I found its delivery of that message to be preachy, joyless, and heavy-handed. Its tale of colonist humans and their conflict with the native Athsheans transplants the worst atrocities of colonialism's past into t......more

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