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The Telling
Hainish Cycle (Related to this series)
- Author
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrator
- Eilidh Beaton
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 30 April 2024
- Run Time
- 7 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction, Fantasy
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'Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES
There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written in the old scripts has been destroyed; modern aural literature is all written to Corporation specifications.
The Corporation expects Sutty to report back so the non-standardised folk stories and songs can be wiped out and the people 're-educated'.
But Sutty herself is in for an education she never imagined.
(P)2024 Orion Publishing Group Limited
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Details
- Author
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrator
- Eilidh Beaton
- Duration
- 7 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 April 2024
- ISBN
- 9781399622127
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Science fiction, Fantasy
Synopsis
Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER'Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMESThere have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written in the old scripts has been destroyed; modern aural literature is all written to Corporation specifications. The Corporation expects Sutty to report back so the non-standardised folk stories and songs can be wiped out and the people 're-educated'. But Sutty herself is in for an education she never imagined.(P)2024 Orion Publishing Group Limited
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