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The Dispossessed

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ISBN: 9780060503987
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
publishing house: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2002
series: Hainish Cycle
language: English

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The Dispossessed is the spellbinding story of Shevek, a brilliant physicist who single-handedly attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust. Anarres, Sheveks homeworld, is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization. Urras, the mother planet, is a world very similar to Earth, with warring nations, great poverty and immense wealth. In his quest, Shevek risks everything in a courageous, unprecedented journey to Urras to learn, to teach, to share. But his gift becomes a threat, and in the profound conflict which ensues, Shevek must re-examine his philosophy of life.

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