Floresta é o Nome do Mundo

by Ursula K. Le Guin

No cover — Ursula K. Le Guin: Floresta é o Nome do Mundo (EBook, Português language, 2019, Morro Branco)

eBook, 157 pages

Português language

Published Oct. 14, 2019 by Morro Branco.

ISBN:: 978-65-86015-09-6
ASIN:: B08JVH26ZB

(7 reviews)

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O planeta Athshe era um verdadeiro paraíso, coberto por densas e colossais florestas. Seus habitantes, humanoides com pouco mais de um metro de altura e corpos cobertos por pelos verdes e sedosos, viviam em paz.

Então outros vieram. Muito mais altos e de pele lisa, eles caíram do céu e começaram a desbravar o território ao seu redor, enxergando os nativos como meros animais selvagens. Eles vieram de um mundo em ruínas e superpovoado, faminto por matérias-primas, madeira e grãos: a Terra.

Sem precedentes culturais para tirania, escravidão ou guerra, os nativos encontram-se à mercê de seus novos e brutais colonizadores.

Quando o desespero atinge níveis inimagináveis, uma revolução é inevitável. Cada golpe contra os invasores será um golpe contra sua própria humanidade. Mas os conquistadores alienígenas os ensinaram a odiar.... e não há como voltar atrás.

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clair reviewed Hainish novels & stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

Review of 'Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 2 (LOA #297): The Word for World Is Forest / Five Ways to Forgiveness / The Telling / stories (Library of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I had difficulty reading parts of this book (I blame me, not the author) and rage read other parts. However, the themes and lessons to be learned are valuable and relevant today.

fetch@bookwyrm.social reviewed The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Word for World is Forest Review

5 stars

Another great read. It's relatively short but doesn't feel like anything is lost. The glimpses of League power and the Athshe societies felt really awe inspiring.

The whole "Hainish" universe is so cool! I love the different perspectives.

bookafnd reviewed The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

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5 stars

it's a fairly short and straightforward story about resistance to colonization, but embedded in it is a kind of complicated discussion about the legitimacy of violence. It seems like it was in part a commentary on the Vietnam War (which is even alluded to at one point).

Don Davidson is one of the more thoroughly unpleasant viewpoint characters I've read; fortunately he is meant to be villainous, & at any rate it's only from his point of view for about a third of the book. His motivation, worldview & actions are disturbing but accurate for a certain sort of man.