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Four Ways To Forgiveness (Hardcover)

by Ursula Le Guin (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 253 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; 1st UK edition edition (9 May 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575063017
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575063013
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,682,726 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A collection of four linked novellas. Two planets - Werel, a slave-owning oligarchy and Yeowe, its colony - are destined for revolution after contact with the sophisticated Ekumen civilization. But one form of oppression can too easily give way to another, and so a new fight for equality begins.

About the Author

Ursula Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Newbury Honor. Among her novels The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the six books of Earthsea have already attained undisputed classic status; and her latest series, the Annals of the Western Shore is joining them. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The nature of humanity though in a distant society, 16 Nov 1998
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This review is from: Four Ways To Forgiveness (Paperback)
Over the past threethousand years the dark people of the planet Werel have surpressed and enslaved the lighter peoples. Even the colonisation and exploitation of the neighbour planet Yeowe was carried out with reckless usage of assets (the ligth skinned people). But things have come to a change lately. The assets on Yeowe started an uprising and finally won a long and bloody war and their freedom. And while things are changing slowly on Werel under the influence of Yeowe, the society on Yeowe itself is being rearranged dramatically. Still there's a similarity between the two social systems: the surpression of women.

The story is the story of six different humans: four of them are members of the Werel/Yeowe society and two are aliens from the Ekumen of the Hainish universe. Everyone of them tries hard to find his/her place in this world of change. And this is how they do it.

This is how to do. Mrs. Le Guin gives us a very realistic picture of human feelings and human behaviour. The paralleles between the society in the book and the society of real planet earth are fascinating. Mrs Le Guin proves once again, that she's a real artist, a painter of feelings and realities. At the end of the book there's a chapter with notes on the plot. For a better understanding I recommend to read this one first. The entire book is like a lecture on how to be human. And still it is very thrilling, a real pageturner. I loved it and so will you.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars hope and redemption, 23 Feb 2003
By Maria Įlvarez Folgado "alfaris5" (castellar del valles, barcelona Spain) - See all my reviews
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Le Guin, with her masterful use of seemingly simple and fluent prose, tells us the stories of how four very different people find hope after terrible ordeals. The background to the stories --and also the main source of hope-- is the need to fight: against slavery, against enormous social inequalities and brutal sexual segregation... in short, against most of the worst injustices that we can find in our world, but that Le Guin transports to the imaginary planets of Yeowe and Werel. We see in these two planets, thanks to the author's mastery, an example of nightmarish distopias whose consequences are analysed in the four main characters. However, Le Guin is always more convincing when describing a society with defects (any kind of defect), and the reactions these defects provoke in the individual, than when describing highly evolved, almost perfect societies. These latter may be better to live in, but they sure are more boring to read about, since the author has to keep within the limits of the politically corect, and that shows.
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