ENGLISH

Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore)

By Ursula K. Le Guin

Book information

Publisher
Harcourt Inc.
Year
2004
ISBN
0152051236, 9780152051235
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
552 kB (565155 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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. (20040801)

Similar books