The Lathe Of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe Of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
‘Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their centre … Literature will miss her. There’s no one like her’ Zadie Smith
‘Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power’ OBSERVER
Through his dreams, George Orr can make alternate realities real - but who is controlling him?
War rages and global warming wreaks havoc on the quality of life everywhere as seven billion people jostle for living space and food. For George Orr, a mild and unremarkable man, the world is overwhelmingly difficult. But George is different: his dreams can change reality - although he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power.
Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help, directing George to dream a world without racism. But as ambition gets the better of ethics, no one can predict the devastating consequences.
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