Gifts
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2006, is a first edition that spans 286 pages. This narrative unfolds in the Uplands, where clans possess extraordinary abilities that can both create and destroy. The story centers on two young friends who choose to resist the temptation of using their gifts, highlighting the tension between power and morality in a world filled with fear and potential violence.
Readers will encounter themes of friendship and the struggle against societal expectations as the characters navigate their abilities. The narrative explores the complexities of power, the challenges of growing up, and the search for hope amid darkness. With elements of fantasy and social themes, Gifts presents a thought-provoking examination of prejudice and the consequences of one’s choices in a richly imagined setting.
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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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