Powers
By (Author) Ursula K. Le Guin
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
9th October 2008
1st July 2008
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
813.54
Winner of SFWA Nebula Award Novel Category 2009
Paperback
400
Width 171mm, Height 204mm, Spine 27mm
278g
The final part in the story that started with GIFTS, and the tale of Gry Barre of Roddmant and Orrec Caspro of Caspromant, two children with extraordinary powers.
They play a part in VOICES too, the sequel to GIFTS, in which Memer, a girl who has grown up in a captured city, is part of the people's fight for freedom. And now, in POWERS, we have the conclusion to Ursula Le Guin's beautifully written, powerful and moving story of the Western Isles, a tale that will leave every reader begging for more.Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend * THE TIMES *
[Le Guin had] the heart of a poet who knew all too well the difference between miracle and eureka, revelation and revolution * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
She is unparalleled in creating fantasy peopled by finely drawn and complex characters * GUARDIAN *
Le Guin's storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be * EMPIRE *
Told with shimmering lyricism, this coming-of-age saga will leave readers transformed * BOOKLIST *
Ursula Le Guin has won many Nebula and Hugo Awards, as well as a National Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Newbery Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. She is one of ther world's most beautiful and powerful writers.