Kuwaisiana

A physicist walks into a revolution. In The Dispossessed, the brilliant scientist Shevek leaves his anarchist moon for a capitalist planet to share a theory of time—and ends up rewriting the future. Ursula K. Le Guin’s visionary tale of walls, worlds, and radical hope is part sci-fi epic, part political thought experiment, and 100% required reading for anyone who’s ever questioned the system. “Le Guin expanded the boundaries of fiction not just by committing to its revolutionary capacities but also by considering deeply, and with great clarity, other ways of being. The Dispossessed, her most intricate and beautifully realized book, channels her lifelong obsessions—Daoism, pacifism, humanity’s sacred relationship to the natural world—into a moving story that is also about loneliness, will, and what it means to return home. More than a novel, this is an ontological work of extraordinary imagination and compassion.” — Meng Jin, The Atlantic