Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any ever written. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific coast.
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ISBN:0358726921
ISBN:9780358726920
Physical Description:xix, 618 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Edition:First Harper Perennial edition.
Publisher:New York, New York : Harper Perennial, 2023.
A first note -- The quail song -- Towards an archaeology of the future -- Stone telling, part one: The serpentine codex; Chart of the nine houses; Where it is; Pandora worries about what she is doing: The pattern -- Some stories told aloud: Some stories told aloud one evening...; Shahugoten; The keeper; Dried mice; Dira -- Poems, first section: How to die in the valley; Pandora sitting by the creek -- Four romantic tales: The miller; Lost; The brave man; At the springs of Orlu -- Poems, second section -- Four histories: Old women hating; A war with the pig people; The town of Chumo; The trouble with the cotton people -- Pandora worrying about what she is doing: She addresses the reader with agitation -- Time and the city: The city; A hole in the air; Big man and little man; Beginnings; Time in the valley -- Stone telling, part two -- Dramatic works: A note on the valley stage; The wedding night at Chukulmas; The shouting man, the red woman, and the bears; Tabetupah; The plumed water; Chandi -- Pandora, worrying about what she is doing, finds a way into the valley through the scrub oak; Dancing the moon -- Poems, third section -- Eight life stories: The train; She listens; Junco; The bright void of the wind; White tree; The third child's story; The dog at the door; The visionary: The life story of flicker of the serpentine of Telina-na -- Some brief valley texts: Pandora converges with the archivist of the library of the Madrone lodge at Wakwaha-na -- Dangerous people: A note about the novel; Chapter two; Pandora gently to the gentle reader -- Stone telling, part three: Messages concerning the condor; About a meeting concerning the warriors -- Poems, fourth section: From the people of the houses of Earth in the valley... -- The back of the book: Long names of houses; Some of the other people of the valley; Animals of the obsidian; Animals of the blue clay; Kinfolk; Lodges, societies; What they wore in the valley; What they ate -- Kesh musical instruments -- Maps -- The world dance -- The sun dance -- About the train -- Some notes on medical practices -- A treatise on practices -- Playing -- Some generative metaphors -- Three poems by Pandora -- Living on the coast, energy, and dancing -- Love -- Written Kesh: Alphabet and pronunciation -- The modes of Earth and sky -- A note and a chart concerning narrative modes -- Spoken and written literature -- Pandora no longer worrying -- Glossary: Kesh numbers -- Stammersong -- Maps: The rivers that run into the Inland Sea; Some of the peoples and places known to the Kesh; The town of Sinshan; The names of the houses of Sinshan; The nine towns on the river-I; The nine towns on the river-II; Some of the paths around Sinshan Creek; The watershed of Sinshan Creek.
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