{ "item_title" : "Kalpa Imperial", "item_author" : [" Angélica Gorodischer", "Ursula K. Le Guin "], "item_description" : "Gorodischer is an award-winning Argentinean writer known for her sf and fantastic literature. This is the first of her 17 novels to be translated into English, by no less than award-winning sf/fantasy writer Le Guin. This Scheherazade-like collection of linked tales, loosely connected by a storyteller, form the rich history of an imaginary civilization from its hunter-gatherer origins to its peak as a technologically sophisticated empire. Each story is concerned with the use and abuse of power, especially the inequities of power between men and women, the rich and the poor, and the state and the individual. Never heavy-handed, the stories flow like fables and gradually show the futility of seeking power and trying to rule others. The dreamy, ancient voice is not unlike Le Guin's, and this collection should appeal to her fans as well as to those of literary fantasy and Latin American fiction. Highly recommended for academic and larger public libraries. [Readers interested in exploring further the worlds of Latin American sf and fantasy should try Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain.-Ed.]-Devon Thomas, Hass MS&L, Ann Arbor, MI Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. -- Library Journal.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/93/152/005/1931520054_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.00", "online_price" : "16.00", "our_price" : "16.00", "club_price" : "16.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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