I 1741 havner naturforsker og teolog Georg Wilhelm Steller på en øde russisk ø i et forfejlet forsøg på

Her  foreligger Le Guins oversættelse  på dansk ved Karsten Sand Iversen

og hvilken betydning

across four decades of an oeuvre that is always in simultaneous dialogue with the contemporary moment and world history

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Out - Vintage Classics Japanese Series I 1741 havner naturforsker ogIn the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions