Gifts(Annals of the Western Shore) Gifts(Annals of the Western Shore)

Publisher Description

In this beautifully crafted novel, the first of the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, 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.
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.

GENRE
Kids & Young Adults
NARRATOR
JC
Jim Colby
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
06:05
hr min
RELEASED
2008
February 20
PUBLISHER
Recorded Books, Inc.
SIZE
303.5
MB