Always Coming Home

A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh.

But ALWAYS COMING HOME is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories, poems, songs, recipes - ALWAYS COMING HOME is no less than an anthropological account of a community that does not yet exist, a tour de force of imaginative fiction by one of modern literature's great voices.

“Lyric and luminous . . . a major imaginative vision - The New York Times Book ReviewAn appealing book as well as a masterly one . . . The future world she has created here is awesomely complex - NewsweekThe effect it has on the reader is hypnotic . . . Le Guin has chosen a most original way to reveal this imagined land - People”

Lyric and luminous . . . a major imaginative vision - The New York Times Book Review

An appealing book as well as a masterly one . . . The future world she has created here is awesomely complex - Newsweek

The effect it has on the reader is hypnotic . . . Le Guin has chosen a most original way to reveal this imagined land - People

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor. Among her novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the six books of Earthsea have attained undisputed classic status; and her recent series, the Annals of the Western Shore, has won her the PEN Center USA Children's literature award and the Nebula Award for best novel. In 2014 Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lived in Portland, Oregon, until she passed away in January 2018.

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A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh.But ALWAYS COMING HOME is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories, poems, songs, recipes - ALWAYS COMING HOME is no less than an anthropological account of a community that does not yet exist, a tour de force of imaginative fiction by one of modern literature's great voices.

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