{"product_id":"five-ways-to-forgiveness","title":"Five Ways to Forgiveness","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in the same universe as Le Guin’s \u003cem\u003eThe Left Hand of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003c\/em\u003e, these five linked Hainish stories follow far-future human colonies living in the distant solar system\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey tell the history of the Ekumen, the galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain. First published as \u003cem\u003eFour Ways to Forgiveness\u003c\/em\u003e, and now joined by a fifth story, \u003cem\u003eFive Ways to Forgiveness \u003c\/em\u003efocuses on the twin planets Werel and Yeowe—two worlds whose peoples, long known as “owners” and “assets,” together face an uncertain future after civil war and revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn “\u003cem\u003eBetrayals\u003c\/em\u003e” a retired science teacher must make peace with her new neighbor, a disgraced revolutionary leader. In “\u003cem\u003eForgiveness Day,\u003c\/em\u003e” a female official from the Ekumen arrives to survey the situation on Werel and struggles against its rigidly patriarchal culture. Embedded within “\u003cem\u003eA Man of the People\u003c\/em\u003e,” which describes the coming of age of Havzhiva, an Ekumen ambassador to Yeowe, is Le Guin’s most sustained description of the Ur-planet Hain. “\u003cem\u003eA Woman’s Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e” is the remarkable narrative of Rakam, born an asset on Werel, who must twice escape from slavery to freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoined to them is “\u003cem\u003eOld Music and the Slave Women,\u003c\/em\u003e” in which the charismatic Hainish embassy worker, who appears in two of the four original stories, returns for a tale of his own. Of this capstone tale Le Guin has written, “the character called Old Music began to tell me a fifth tale about the latter days of the civil war . . . I’m glad to see it joined to the others at last.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ursula K. Le Guin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45020181037103,"sku":"9781399620307","price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781399620307.jpg?v=1772875323","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/five-ways-to-forgiveness","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}