The Left Hand of Darkness
What are the institutions of the "island"?
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In The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin moves far from our world in time and space, to give us a planet where life has evolved on different lines from our own. This world, which happens to be in a period of high glaciation, has evolved political institutions in two adjoining countries that resemble feudalism on the one hand, and bureaucracy on the other.
The Left Hand of Darkness