The Telling

Paperback | 1 October 2001

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Sutty, an Observer for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to Aka, a world in the grip of a materialistic government. The monolithic Corporation State of Aka has outlawed all old customs and beliefs. Sutty herself, an Earthwoman, has fled from a similar monolithic state - but one controlled by religious fundamentalists.
Unexpectedly she receives permission to leave the modern city where her movements were closely monitored. She travels up the river into the countryside, going from howling loudspeakers to bleating cattle, to seek the remnants of the banned culture of Aka. As she comes to know and love the people she lives with, she begins to learn their unique religion - the Telling. Finally joining them on a trek into the high mountains to one of the last sacred places, she glimpses hope for the reconciliation of the warring ideologies that have filled their lives, and her own, with grief.

Industry Reviews

"The Telling will make you anticipate tomorrow a bit differently than you did yesterday." --Denver Rocky Mountain News
"Powerfully moving...This is humanist SF at its best, LeGuin in top form." --Faren Miller, Locus

"Her language, which sings true in every line, is simple and profound, and her storytelling is sure." --Los Angeles Times

"I was enthralled." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"In The Telling, the long overdue continuation of her classic Hainish cycle, Ursula K. Le Guin combines the gifts of a pure storyteller at the height of her powers with a wise and passionate heart and the disciplined, ceaselessly questioning mind of a true philosopher... In her Hainish books she is creating a social anthropology of the future, fascinating and utterly believable." --Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn

"Spellbinding."--The Denver Post

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