Title: Gifts
Title Record # 152853
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Date: 2004-09-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Series: Annals of the Western Shore
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: young-adult (1), Young Adult (1), fantasy (1), magic (1), coming of age (1), slavery (1) Add Tags
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Date: 2004-09-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Series: Annals of the Western Shore
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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. 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. Includes a reader’s guide and a sample chapter from the companion title Voices.
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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2 | 2005 Locus | Best Young Adult Book |
Nomination (as Dons) | 2011 Imaginaire | Traduction |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Gifts | 2004-09-00 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Harcourt | 0-15-205123-6 | $17.00?$: US dollar |
274 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Cliff Nielsen | |
Gifts | 2005-10-00 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Orion Children's Books | 1-84255-498-0 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
274 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | David Wyatt | |
Gifts | 2006-04-01 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Harcourt Paperbacks | 0-15-205124-4 | $7.95?$: US dollar |
286 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Larry Rostant | |
Gifts | 2008-04-18 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Paw Prints | 978-1-4352-5753-5 | $16.95?$: US dollar |
286 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
Annals of the Western Shore | 2020-10-06 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Library of America (The Library of America #335) | 978-1-59853-668-3 | $35.00?$: US dollar |
672 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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Annals of the Western Shore | 2020-10-06 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Library of America (The Library of America #335) | 978-1-59853-669-0 | $16.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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Gifts | date unknown | Ursula K. Le Guin | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 978-0-547-53987-4 | $7.95?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | Cliff Nielsen | ||
Gifts | date unknown | Ursula K. Le Guin | Harcourt Paperbacks | 0-15-205124-4 | $7.95?$: US dollar |
286 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Larry Rostant |
Reviews
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2004) in Locus, #524 September 2004
- Review by Faren Miller (2004) in Locus, #524 September 2004
- Review by Wolfgang Baur (2004) in Amazing Stories, December 2004
- Review [German] by Gundula Sell (2007) in Das Science Fiction Jahr 2007
- Review [Dutch] by Jos Lexmond (2009) in Holland-SF 2009, #4
- Review [French] by Bertrand Bonnet (2011) in Bifrost, #63