“A brilliant exploration of the power and responsibility of gifts.” - Publishers Weekly ( starred review) "As always, Le Guin has delivered a story that captivates and draws the reader in. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Fearsome They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. Wondrous the ability-with a glance, a gesture, a word-to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. 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. In this beautifully crafted novel, the first of the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, Ursula K.
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