THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS

The left hand of darkness raconte l'histoire d'un émissaire humain solitaire à Winter, un monde extraterrestre dont les habitants passent la majeure partie de leur temps sans sexe. Son objectif est de faciliter l'intégration de Winter dans une civilisation intergalactique en plein essor. Mais pour ce faire, il doit combler le fossé entre ses propres opinions et celles de la culture totalement dissemblable qu'il rencontre.

Genly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet Gethen, a world perpetually in winter. The people there are androgynous, normally neuter, but they can become male ot female at the peak of their sexual cycle. They seem to Genly Ai alien, unsophisticated and confusing.

But he is drawn into the complex politics of the planet and, during a long, tortuous journey across the ice with a politician who has fallen from favour and has been outcast, he loses his professional detachment and reaches a painful understanding of the true nature of Gethenians and, in a moving and memorable sequence, even finds love...

The left hand of darkness - Ursula F. Le Guin - 9780441478125