Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: Harper Collins 1994
Paperback 305 pages
What I love about Ursula Le Guin is that she never fails to engage her readers into thinking about larger themes of what it means to be human, while allowing our imaginations to soar to distant worlds. In this collection of four short stories, Le Guin shows us two worlds in a far off galaxy. One civilization is ancient, exploring the universe collecting knowledge or other worlds. One of these worlds is Yeowe, a civilization one the verge of revolution. The world is in chaos as the people try to recover from generations of enslavement, racial inequality, gender inequality and religious turmoil. By using the perspective of an alien observer Le Guin is able to give us a range of viewpoints of this tumultuous uprising. By turns reminiscent of our own troubled history and wholly magical and new, these novellas are four more reasons why Le Guin is one of the premier social writers of our times.
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