Aux frontières du réalisme et du réalisme magique, Ursula K.Le Guin nous entraîne dans une série de nouvelles délicieuses, enthousiasmantes et passionnantes. Elle nous plonge au moment où des vies quotidiennes basculent dans l'étrange et l'inattendu, nous dépeignant avec force une galerie de personnages tous plus marquants les uns que les autres.
On retrouve ici la virtuosité et la force des récits de l'autrice de tant de chefs-d'oeuvre, de La Main gauche de la nuit à Terremer, des Dépossédés à L'Effet Churten.
When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.
Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back.
'All le Guin's stories are metaphors for the one human story; all her fantastic planets are this one' Margaret Atwood
ARMCHAIR TRAVEL FOR THE MIND:
It was Sita Dulip who discovered, whilst stuck in an airport, unable to get anywhere, how to change planes - literally. With a kind of a twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere - be anywhere - because she was already between planes ... and on the way back from her sister's wedding, she missed her plane in Chicago and found herself in Choom.
The author, armed with this knowledge and Rornan's invaluable Handy Planetary Guide - although not the Encyclopedia Planeria, as that runs to forty-four volumes - has spent many happy years exploring places as diverse as Islac and the Veksian plane.
CHANGING PLANES is an intriguing, enticing mixture of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS and THE HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY; a cross between Douglas Adams and Alain de Botton: a mix of satire, cynicism and humour by one of the world's best writers.
