<b>Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Stories <br> A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book <p/> In these "vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches" (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>), literary legend Ursula Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, <i>The Little Prince, </i> and <i>Gulliver's Travels </i>to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning--and mystery--of being human.</b>
