The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Left Hand of Darkness

Updated: 7 Sep 2020
'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to leave his beloved homeland; the other is fleeing from a different kind of persecution. What they have in common is curiosity, about others and themselves, and an almost unshakeable belief that the world can be a better place. As they journey for over 800 miles, across the harshest, most inhospitable landscape, they discover the true meaning of friendship, and of love.
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It’s a giant thought experiment that’s also a cracking good read about gender. A representative from an Earth-like planet comes to a world in which human beings are all of the same gender, except for a few days each month when you become one gender and your partner becomes the other gender. So it allows you to have a king that is pregnant. I remember reading it aged ten or eleven and it rewired me inside of my head.
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