Opus Two

From the pioneering woman whose masterpiece, Kalpa Imperial, was championed by Ursula K. Le Guin, a visionary dystopian novel about a world in which racial and urban-rural power dynamics are inverted, published for the first time in English

A Penguin Classic

In a desolate, postapocalyptic world, a metropolis ravaged by a nuclear attack has fractured into competing enclaves. Power dynamics and racial hierarchies have been inverted, as rural farmers rule over urban elites and the disempowered seize control over their former oppressors. With the city struggling to rebuild itself, its residents must rediscover who they are and salvage hope from the rubble in this prophetic meditation on the inequities perpetuated by the seductive advance of technology.