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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. AWARDS • PEN Center USA Children’s literature award (2005) • The Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children’s Literature Honor (2005)

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Author

Ursula K. Le Guin; Ginger Clark

Publisher

Harcourt Paperbacks

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780152051242

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult

Rating

3.65 / 5 (5,804 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14