

Gifts
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Series: Annals of the Western Shore #1
Narrator: Jim Colby
Unabridged: 6 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/20/2008
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Social Themes
Synopsis
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.
"A brilliant exploration of the power and responsibility of gifts."—Publishers Weekly, starred review