How to reconcile two irreconcilable worlds?
GenevaA physicist trying to develop a theory of everything straddling two antagonistic planets. This is the starting point ofThe dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin, a science fiction classic in its most humane, political, social, and vindictive aspects. Le Guin is one of the genre's greatest exponents, known for her feminist and environmentalist views, always seeking utopias in previously unexplored corners.
Far from being a book exploring the material fabric of the cosmos, the story delves primarily into the political and social structures that govern these two planets, governed in contrasting ways—one is under a capitalist regime while the second is an anarchist society—and the relationship between them. The protagonist's story is one of constant liberation, breaking through invisible but ever-present barriers. Beyond the main plot, the book addresses topics ranging from the abolition of prisons to the feminism Le Guin has always championed.
Published in Catalan by Raig Verd, and with a magnificent translation by Blanca Busquets, the book is one of the few to have won the triple science fiction awards: Locus, Hugo, and Nebula. Le Guin is always a glimmer of hope in a world that seems on the brink of collapse, where everything is ephemeral and the future more uncertain than ever.
