The Left Hand of Darkness

Genly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet Gethen, aworld 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 along, tortuous journey across the ice with apolitician who has fallen from favour and has been outcast, he loses his professional detachment and reaches apainful understanding of the true nature of Gethenians and, in amoving and memorable sequence, even finds love...