Finished reading: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
This classic Nebula and Hugo award winner drops you in the deep end of an alien world — strange vocabulary, gender-fluid inhabitants, a perpetual chill you can almost feel. The world-building is astonishing; the writing borders on poetry.
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
The ideas on gender and society still feel fresh and important. A good read. ★★★★☆