Rad Readers: The Left Hand of Darkness Part III

The Radical Readers Book Club welcomes readers, writers and book lovers of all kinds to join us for a discussion of Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness."

We will be discussing Chapters 15 - 22. Bring questions, favorite passages and refreshments if you like! In "The Left Hand of Darkness," Genly Ai's mission is to bring the planet Winter back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed.

Our next read will be "Open Veins of Latin America" by Eduardo Galeano!

For over 25 years, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.

220px-TheLeftHandOfDarkness.jpgAll readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably.

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