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Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story • A New York Times Notable Book

“Even Le Guin's overtly cautionary tales have a delicacy that disarms resistance. . . . Almost unbearably poignant.”—The New York Times Book Review

In these “vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches” (San Francisco Chronicle), literary legend Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, The Little Prince, and Gulliver’s Travels to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, an...