The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin hits all the high notes that her great, and very good novels reach. This is a richly imagined world, a planet in the midst of social, political and religious transformation – and Sutty, the observer from Terra, is our compassionate witness and guide.
This novel has shades of the Chinese Cultural Revolution – and Chinese religion and philosophy – rendered to great effect. Le Guin takes elements of China and mixes them with this world - but this is also pure creation, and wholly not derivative. This novel stands on its down two feet.
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