num_pages: 179
description: The Eye of the Heron is the story of two communities of outcasts from the earth living on another planet: one, the exploitive, violent inhabitants of the City, tries to oppress the other, heirs of a peace movement begun generations earlier on earth, nonviolent by choice, huddled together in the Shanty Town on the edge of the unknown. Le Guin’s heroine, Luz, abandons the privilege and security that go with the prisonlike existence that is the lot of women in the City in order to forge her own personal identity amidst the freedom, companionship, and love—and hard physical labor—that characterize life among the Shanty Towners. She finally leads an expedition of the latter into the wilderness, confronting its silence and massive indifference—and her own fears of being alone and abandoned—to found a new colony and build a new and independent life in an unknown land.
language: English
title: The Eye of the Heron
titlecomplete: The Eye of the Heron
genres: 20th Century, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novella, Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 3081
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Premi Protagonista Jove
category: Categoria 16-17 anys
publisher: Harper & Row