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Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story • A New York Times Notable Book

A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of Gulliver''s Travels, in which the narrator visits fifteen planes and describes the people, language and customs with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist. —USA Today

In these “vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches” (San Francisco Chronicle), literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, The Little Prince, and Gulliver’s Travels to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning—and mystery—of being human.

Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she’s fo

Changing Planes

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A Paperback / softback by Ursula K Le Guin, Eric Beddows, Karen Joy Fowler

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    Publisher: Harper Perennial
    Publication Date: 13/10/2020
    ISBN13: 9780358380023, 978-0358380023
    ISBN10: 0358380022
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story • A New York Times Notable Book

    A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of Gulliver''s Travels, in which the narrator visits fifteen planes and describes the people, language and customs with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist. —USA Today

    In these “vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches” (San Francisco Chronicle), literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, The Little Prince, and Gulliver’s Travels to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning—and mystery—of being human.

    Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she’s fo

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