Shevek is a physicist, a revolutionary, and a man willing to risk everything to bridge worlds divided by distrust and centuries of isolation.
Born on Anarres—a barren moon where anarchist ideals rule—Shevek dares to challenge his society’s stagnant dogma. His journey takes him to Urras, a mother planet of beauty, inequality, and ambition. There, amid opulence and unrest, Shevek seeks not conquest but connection: to share ideas, to dismantle the invisible walls separating civilizations.
But change comes at a price.
In a society eager to use him for their own ends, Shevek must fight to uphold his vision of freedom, unity, and understanding.
Profound, challenging, and achingly human, The Dispossessed is Ursula K. Le Guin at her visionary best—a masterpiece of science fiction and social commentary.
