The Telling

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The Telling
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
IllustratorVictor Stabin
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Published2000 (Harcourt)
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages264
AwardsLocus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2001)
ISBN0-15-100567-2
OCLC43662164
813/.54 21
LC ClassPS3562.E42 T45 2000
Preceded byFour Ways to Forgiveness 

The Telling is a 2000 science fiction book that was written by Ursula K. Le Guin and is set in her fictional world called the Hainish Cycle. It tells the story of Sutty, an Earthling sent to be an Ekumen observer, on the planet Aka, and her experiences.