Four ways to forgiveness

228 pages

English language

Published Dec. 14, 1995 by HarperPrism.

ISBN:
978-0-06-105234-7
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OCLC Number:
32167377

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In a world where all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners," where tradition and liberation are at war, and women are the slaves of slaves, freedom takes many forms. It can be learning. It can be love. It can be compassion, or courage. It can be created with a touch, or killed with a blow. Though it may seem small, it is the key that opens the great door to understanding. It is the one noble thing.

In this stunning new collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, linked by character and setting, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of America's most honored and respected authors, in or out of the field of science fiction.

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Arka arkaya kölelikle alakalı iki Ursula eseri okumak baan fazla geldi. Ciğerlerim çürüdü, ruhum yıprandı. Ama pek çok şey de öğretti bana. Nasıl dandik bir varlık olabileceğimize dair, umudun tohumunu nasıl taşıdığımıza ve tüm bunların en genel anlamıyla hayat karşısında nasıl da küçük kalabileceğine dair.

Kitapta çok fazla mevzu, isim, olay var. Dört öykünün birbirleriyle olan bağını kurmakta zorlandım. Bu kitabın değil benim sorunumdu. Cildin ardındaki açıklama kısmını görmemiştim. Eh, o "açıklama bölümü"nü kitap bittikten sonra okunacak noktaya koyanların da azıcık sorumluluğu yok değil hani.

Review of 'Four Ways to Forgiveness' on 'Goodreads'

Le Guin is so interesting. Her decisions about the type of story to tell are so different from the typical author of science fiction. She regularly picks people who are not the main actors in a political drama. She’ll give us slow, understated events. She also doesn’t focus a lot on the technology of her settings. She’s always talking about physical books in her worlds of space travel, which makes me laugh, but I forgive it.

I actually read Five Ways to Forgiveness from a two volume set of the Hainish Cycle. Old Music and the Slave Women was included.

Like her other work, there are some forward thinking moments and some backward stuff. At one point she refers to some male performers as “transvestites.” As far as I can tell they would be parallel to men in drag in our world. But she uses a dated term, offensive to …

Review of 'Four Ways to Forgiveness' on 'Storygraph'

"But my people, she thought, know only how to deny. Born in the dark shadow of power misused, we set peace outside our world, a guiding and unattainable light. All we know to do is fight. Any peace one of us can make in our life is only a denial that the war is going on, a shadow of the shadow, a doubled unbelief."

"There are truths that are not useful. All knowledge is local, my friend has said. Is it true, where is it true, that that child had to die in that way? Is it true, where is it true, that she did not have to die in that way?"

"Nobody knew anything about any time when things had been different. Nobody knew there was any place where things might be different. We were enslaved by the present time. Erod had talked of change, indeed, but the owners …

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Subjects

  • Life on other planets -- Fiction
  • Science fiction, American
  • Women -- Fiction