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Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore, Book 1)

Author: Le Guin, Ursula K

Follett Number: 14549T8
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Harcourt, c2004, p2006
Format: 286 pages ; 18 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-205124-2
ISBN-10: 0-15-205124-4
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:
Fantasy
Good and Evil Fiction
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.

From the publisher:
Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability--with a glance, a gesture, a word--to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill. In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light.

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