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  <title><![CDATA[Four Ways to Forgiveness: Stories]]></title>
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  <default-description>Ursula K. Le Guin revisits her popular Hainish universe with four interconnected stories that together weave a tapestry of revolution and political turmoil. Le Guin tells the tale of two worlds where decades of slavery and class distinction are about to come to an end. She begins at the end with the story of a woman who survived the perilous times and now must face what comes after. Then in turn come tales of a naive envoy, an aloof observer forced to choose sides, and a young slave who wins freedom, only to confront the bonds of her own mind.</default-description>
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  <read_at>Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When was the last time I read a novel in a day that wasn't a kids book?  I couldn't put <em>Four Ways to Forgiveness</em> down.  This collection of four novellas tells of the struggles for liberation on the planet Werel and its colony Yeowe.  First from slavery, then from the misogynist, fighting gangs that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57489615">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I near the end of my quest to read every scrap of fiction LeGuin ever wrote, this one does not disappoint.   4 short stories about the same world in the midst of a revolution. I love that her first set of characters are old, and how quiet and personal that story is in contrast with the later stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66639903">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three worthwhile stories with a few boring or incohesive aspects, then &quot;A Woman's Liberation&quot;, which is a real masterpiece. All the stories deal with the slavery-based culture of Werel (this is a different planet from the one in <em>City of Illusions</em>) and with its former colony Yeowe, which ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44617192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been on a real Le Guin kick lately, but this is easily the best of her story sets that I've read in a long time and showcases her great love and understanding of all humanity (and I don't use the hyperbole lightly). Le Guin never goes for the easy solution, the tied-up ending, the parable, or t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24133607">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've loved everything I've read by LeGuin, and this is no exception.  It's four interconnected stories that focus on themes of slavery/freedom, understanding, love and, as the title notes, forgiveness.  The setting is the planet Werel and its former slave colony planet, Yeowe.  On Werel, a rigid cas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1427934">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Anthology&quot; might be a little misleading-- this is a set of four interwoven novellas. They share a setting, take place within a few years of one another, and have some minor intersections among their characters. Basically, they each stand alone, but they also come at some of the same notio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64301713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read Le Guin in a while. This is my first introduction to the Hainish universe in which Ursula Le Guin creates a world in which to try out ideas about religion and political systems. The different stories are set on different planets or different parts of worlds and from very different per...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75157484">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[captivating like her other books in the ekumen series about other planets long colonized by humanoids, this book was just as interesting as a study of a society founded on slavery.  but for it was also more gruesome and difficult to read about the treatment of women and children under such systems o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65710237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was at first skeptical about the four intertwined novellas that the book consists of, since I generally prefer full novels when reading sci-fi, but in this case it worked well. One learns a lot about the universe that Le Guin created, which is marvelous in size and complexity, and reminds me in so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50211877">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Ursula's best. Set on two worlds, one a newly self-liberated industrial colony, the other an older capitalist imperial power. The characters in these four stories come from all sides of these planets, from former slaves to former soldiers in the imperial army. She likes these characters I thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19936702">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Four long stories taking place on Yeowe and Werel. Senior citizens, banished to solitude in the countryside, find solace in each other's company. A Hainish envoy finds difficulty adjusting to life in ruthless patriarchy and her male bodyguard manages to &quot;hold fast to the one noble thing.&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16089201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  Short stories are good, but this setup was better than one book; it is kind of like an almagation of short stories and novel.  I enjoyed having the different interwoven strands of this story presented.  It comes out more as real life.  The characters are easy to like and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19305401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a set of four stories that take place in a society which has just ended racially-based chattel slavery because of slave rebellion, and focus especially on gender and race dynamics in this tumultuous time and place (Le Guin writes in the forward that people sometimes ask her why she thinks th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11669675">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book with some important things to say about forgiveness.]]></body>
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    <review id="22873827">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm not the biggest Ursula Le Guin fan.  Not really a fan of other worldly sci-fi at all, but this book was really and engaging. Deals with four separate but related stories of mistakes, choices, and forgiveness on the back drop of a master-race, a slave people and revolt against racial and gender e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22873827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I consistently rate LeGuin as four or five star writer.  This is a collection of four connected biographies set in the same disturbed political setting..very well written as always, very honest portrayals of people caught up in revolution and cultural change as human, not stereotypical heroes/villia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4346399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The worlds that Le Guin constructs are so detailed &amp; complex, that I was at once drawn into each of the 4 stories, wanting to know how they all tied together.  In particular I found her depiction of social inequalities and sexual segregation quite intriguing. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorites. Not the first time I read it - probably won't be the last. Ursula is my favorite author. This book is multiple stories that are all connected. It has politics, love, growth, gender issues, discrimination. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book provides a fresh and necessary view on how social momentum affects individual lives and decisions.  Le Guin removes the two-dimensional villainy from typical stories involving slavery and caste, humanizing all participants.]]></body>
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