Changing Planes (English Edition)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

2014

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780544341685

Português Brasileiro

A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of Gullivers Travels, from a narrator with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist. USA Today Hailed by Neil Gaiman as a master of the craft and Margaret Atwood as a quintessentially American writer, Ursula K. Le Guin is at her entertaining, thought-provoking best in this collection of ingeniously linked stories. Missing a flight, waiting in an airport, listening to garbled announcementswho doesnt hate that misery? But Sita Dulip of Cincinnati finds a way to bypass the long lines, the crowded restrooms, the nasty food, the whimpering children and domineering parents, the bookless bookstores, the plastic chairs bolted to the floor. . . . With a kind of twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than to describe, Sita travels not to Denver but to Strupsirts, a picturesque region of waterspouts and volcanoes. Or to Djeyo, where she can stay for two nights with a balcony overlooking the amber Sea of Somue. This new method of changing planes enables Sita to visit bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own . . . and sometimes open doors into the thrillingly alien. A New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times bestseller, featuring illustrations by Eric Beddows, Changing Planes is your boarding pass to fifteen worlds that are vintage Le Guin, from a recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of the short story.