书名：The Left Hand of Darkness 黑暗的左手

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数970L

作者：Ursula K. Le Guin

出版社名称：Ace Books

出版时间：1987

语种：英文 

ISBN：9780441478125

商品尺寸：10.7 x 2.3 x 19.3 cm

包装：简装

页数：304 （以实物为准）

★厄休拉·勒古恩——世界幻想文坛的传奇女王！ ★6次雨果奖、6次星云奖、21次轨迹奖、世界奇幻奖、美国国家图书奖、美国文学杰出贡献奖、卡夫卡奖、纽伯瑞奖、号角书奖、小詹姆斯·提普翠奖！ ★美国科幻奇幻作家协会“大师”称号、作家与艺术家中的“在世传奇”、“奇幻小说三巨头”之一！ ★《黑暗的左手》三部曲之一！ ★在宇宙尽头的陌生人身上，看到了另一个自己！The Left Hand of Darkness《黑暗的左手》是美国作家厄休拉·勒奎恩创作的一本科幻小说，讲述了星际联盟使者真力·艾来到终年严寒的格森星，试图说服星球上的国家加入联盟的故事；书中描写出一种没有性别的独特异星文化，并借此而对性别、社会、生命等议题有深入探讨。这部小说是“星云奖”和“雨果奖”双奖作品。 媒体评论：“科幻小说的经典。”——《新闻周刊》 “勒古恩笔下的角色复杂饱满，让人难忘。她的作品因其无穷的魅力而不凡。”——《时代周刊》 “勒古恩，一个伟大的小说家，创造了一个令我们重拾信心、卸下负担、回归自我的幻想世界。”——《波士顿环球报》 “勒古恩是美国当今科幻小说作家中数一数二的伟大作家。”——《纽约时报》Ursula K. Le Guin's groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.A lone human ambassador is sent to Winter, an alien world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants can change their gender whenever they choose. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters... Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction. Praise for The Left Hand of Darkness:“[A] science fiction masterpiece.”—Newsweek “A jewel of a story.”—Frank Herbert “As profuse and original in invention as The Lord of the Rings.”—Michael Moorcock “An instant classic.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own.”—The Boston Globe “Stellar...A triumphant return to the magic-drenched world of Earthsea...Le Guin is still at the height of her powers, a superb stylist with a knack for creating characters who are both wise and deeply humane. A major event in fantasy literature.”—Publishers Weekly “Richly told...Le Guin hasn’t lost her touch. She draws us into the magical land and its inhabitants’ doings immediately.”—Booklist

在寒冷的冬星上，生活着一群无性人，他们可以自由选择自己的性别。在每月的一个特别日子，他们自由成为男人或女人。 一名星际联盟特使，被派往冬星，完成一个秘密使命。 然而，冬星上的一切——怪异的风俗、古老的传说、混乱的政局，无不冲击着特使固有的观念。 面对陌生的一切，孰是孰非，他该如何面对？

厄休拉•勒古恩(Ursula K. Le Guin)，美国幻想文学大师、文学家，“奇幻小说三巨头”之一，被称为“科幻小说女王”。她一生获奖无数，美国国会图书馆更是将她列为作家与艺术家中的“在世传奇”。2014年，她获得美国文学杰出贡献奖。西方文学评论家将她列为“美国经典作家”，日本作家村上春树也对她推崇备至。这是一个明明是传奇，却不愿被称为“传奇”的作家。她说：“我讨厌被称为‘传奇’，我站在这里，是个有血有肉的人。” Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. She was the bestselling author of the Earthsea Cycle and the Hainish Cycle, including The Left Hand of Darkness. With the awarding of the 1975 Hugo and Nebula Awards to The Dispossessed, she became the first author to win both awards twice for novels. She passed away in 2018.

I’ll make my report as if’ I told a story,for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. But both are sensitive. The story is not all mine, nor told by mc alone. Indeed I am not sure whose story it is; you can judge better. But it is all one, and if at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; vet none of them is false, and it is all one story. It starts on the 44th diurnal of the Year 1491, which on the planet Winter in the nation Karhide was Odharhahad Tuwa or the twenty-second day of the third month of spring in the Year One. It is always the Year One here. On1’ the dating of every past and future year changes each New Year’s Day, as one counts backwards or forwards from the unitary Now. So it as spring of the Year One in Erhenrang, capital city of Karhide, and I was in peril of mylife, and did not know it. I was in a parade. I walked just behind the gossiwors and just before the king. It was raining. Rainclouds over dark towers, rain falling in deep streets, a dark storm-beaten city of stone, through which one vein of gold winds slowly. First come merchants, potentates, and artisans of the City Erhenrang, rank after rank, magnificently clothed, advancing through the rain as comfortably as fish through the sea. Their faces are keen and cairn. They do not march in step. This is a parade with no soldiers, not even imitation soldiers. Next come the lords and mayors and representatives, one person, or five, or forty-five, or four hundred, from each Domain and Co-Domain of Karhide, a vast ornate procession that moves to the music of metal horns and hollow blocks of bone and wood and the dry, pure lilting of electric flutes. The various banners of the great Domains tangle in a rain-beaten confusion of color with the yellow pennants that bedeck the way, and the various musics of each group clash and interweave in many rhythms echoing in the deep stone street. Next, a troop of jugglers with polished spheres of gold, which they hurl up high in flashing flights, and catch, and hurl again, making fountain-jets of bright jugglery.All at once, as if they had literally caught the light, the gold spheres blaze bright as glass: the sun is breaking through.