{"product_id":"changing-planes-ursula-k-le-guin","title":"Changing Planes (Ursula K. Le Guin)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Malamud Award for Short Story - A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even Le Guin's overtly cautionary tales have a delicacy that disarms resistance. . . .  Almost unbearably poignant.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these \"vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e), literary legend Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the mystery of being human-now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she's found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChanging planes-not airplanes, of course, but entire planes of existence-enables Sita to visit societies not found on Earth. As \"Sita Dulip's Method\" spreads, the narrator and her acquaintances encounter cultures where the babble of children fades over time into the silence of adults; where whole towns exist solely for holiday shopping; where personalities are ruled by rage; where genetic experiments produce less than desirable results. With \"the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist\" (\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e), Le Guin takes readers on a truly universal tour, showing through the foreign and alien indelible truths about our own human society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe full set of books in the 2026 Olive Editions series include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGuards! Guards!\u003c\/i\u003e by Terry Pratchett\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eChanging Planes\u003c\/i\u003e by Ursula K. Le Guin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIsland\u003c\/i\u003e by Aldous Huxley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAlas, Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e by Pat Frank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Princess Bride\u003c\/i\u003e by William Goldman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Palace\u003c\/i\u003e by Helene Wecker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eHighfire\u003c\/i\u003e by Eoin Colfer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe World Wasn't Ready for You\u003c\/i\u003e by Justin Key\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin\u003c\/b\u003e (1929-2018) was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters. Her body of work includes twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award, along with a PEN\/Malamud Award and many other accolades. In 2016 she joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\nKAREN JOY FOWLER is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including \u003ci\u003eWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlack Glass.\u003c\/i\u003e She is the winner of the 2014 PEN\/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy Awards.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Trade Paperback, Englisch, 256 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66105245794653,"sku":"K010800530","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1080053000001A.jpg?v=1790926793","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/changing-planes-ursula-k-le-guin","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}