{"product_id":"la-mano-izquierda-de-la-oscuridad-singular-contemporanea","title":"La mano izquierda de la oscuridad","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the major novels by its author. A classic of science fiction that transformed the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Light is the left hand of darkness, and darkness is the right hand of light. The two are one, life and death, together like lovers in kémmer, like joined hands, like the end and the way.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I will write my report as if telling a story, for I was taught as a child that truth is born from imagination.” Thus begins the story of Genly Ai, sent to the planet Gueden—also called Winter for its icy climate—with the purpose of contacting its inhabitants and proposing they join the league of planets known as the Ecumen. The Guedenians have a unique trait: they are hermaphrodites and adopt one sex or the other exclusively during the mating season, called kémmer. On Winter, Ai contacts Estraven, a high-ranking official who will show him how different a society can be where sexual differentiation does not exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingular Contemporánea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e collection from Austral \u003c\/strong\u003erevives great 20th-century classics very different from each other: from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerfume\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf This Is a Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e. Dystopia, historical memory, European short novels, or science fiction all in one carefully curated and recognizable library. A way to bring together essential readings in current editions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austral","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57130551247192,"sku":"LIB-LA-AU-850","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788445020203.jpg?v=1776444945","url":"https:\/\/us.plasticbooks.com\/en\/products\/la-mano-izquierda-de-la-oscuridad-singular-contemporanea","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}