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Annals of the Western Shore: Book 2

Powers (2007) (edit title/settings)

by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) (edit contributors)

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Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes “remembers” things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has... read more

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  • Gavir: A boy from the Marshes with a gift to see the future
  • Sallo: Gavir's sister, who becomes a 'gift girl'.
  • Tib: Young friend
  • Yavin: Householder's son, Sallo becomes his gift girl bride.
  • Torm: Student, with wild streak and is sent off to Swordmanship training. Problem of wild rages.
  • Hoby: Student, sent to a labor camp.
  • Everra: Teacher and household slave.
  • Astano: Member of Arca family
  • Sotur: Cousin of Arca family abd whom Gav has a crush on.
  • Oco: Student
  • Miv: Younger brother of Oco.
  • Chamry: Upland friend
  • Bulec: Leader of southern forest men
  • Venne: Gav's companion
  • Bantor: A gifted person in the Uplands
  • Loir-et-cher: southern forest man
  • Barna: Mysterious leder of Free Forest people.
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  • “Freedom is largely a matter of seeing that there are alternatives.”
    Gav
  • “Justice is in the hands of the gods; mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword.”
  • “Men have to learn how to be free. Being a slave is easy. To be a free man you have to use your head, you have to give here and take there, you have to give orders to yourself. They'll learn!”
    Barna
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  • Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it.
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  • By that standard, leadership means personal magnetism, active intelligence, unquestioning acceptance of responsibility, and something harder to define: a tension between justice and compassion, which is never satisfied by one without the other, and so can seldom be wholly satisfied.
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  • Perhaps men rely on war, like politics, to give them a sense of importance they lack without it; and the possibility of violence and destruction sheds a glamour on the household life which they otherwise hold in contempt. Women, I think, not needing the self-importance and not sharing the contempt, often fail to understand the virtue and necessity of warfare; but they may be caught in the glamour, and they love the beauty of courage.
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  • Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.
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  • 'Men have to learn how to be free,' he said to me. 'Being a slave is easy. To be a free man you have to use your head, you have to give here and take there, you have to give your orders to yourself.
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  • If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.
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  • The quality and virtue of a slave is invisibility. The powerless need to be invisible even to themselves.
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  • ''Three things that, seeking increase, strengthen soul: love, learning, liberty.''
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  • 'Discontent,' Everra answered. 'Noble words to teach you how to be unhappy. Such poets refuse the gifts of the Ancestors. Their work is a bottomless pit. Once you remove the firm foundation of belief on which all our lives are built, there is nothing. Only words! Gorgeous, empty words. You can't live on words, Gavir. Only belief gives life and peace. All morality is founded upon belief.'
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  • Freedom is largely a matter of seeing that there are alternatives.
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First Sentence edit see section history

"Don't talk about it," Sallo tells me.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 3 in Annals of the Western Shore. (standard series)

Preceded by Gifts, and followed by Voices.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
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Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2007
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Awards edit see section history

  • Nebula (2008: Best Novel, #1)

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