![]() ![]() GIFTS is Ursula Le Guin at her best: an exciting, moving story beautifully told. Orrec too is a problem, for his gift of undoing is wild: he cannot control it - and that is the most dangerous gift of all. Gry's gift runs true, but she refuses to call animals for the hunt. Ansul is an occupied city, and Memer herself is a siege brat, the daughter of an Ald soldier who raped her mother early in the Ald’s conquest of the city. ![]() The novel follows Memer, who lives in the city Ansul. Orrec and Gry are the heirs to Caspro and Barre. Voices is the second novel in The Annals of the Western Shore, one of Le Guin’s young adult series. The Caspro gift is the worst and best of all: it is the gift of undoing: an insect, an animal, a place. ![]() The Callems can move heavy things - even buildings, even hills. The Rodds can send a spellknife into a man's heart. The women of Cordemant have the power of blinding, or making deaf, or taking away speech. The people there are like their land: harsh and fierce and prideful ever at war with each other. GIFTS has the simplicity of fairy tale and the power of myth' GUARDIAN 'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER Orrec, the son of the Brantor of Caspromant, and Gry, daughter of the Brantors of Barre and Rodd, have grown up together, running half-wild across the Uplands. She is unparalleled in creating fantasy peopled by finely drawn and complex characters. 'She's showing no signs of losing her brilliance. ![]()
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