Voices
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
26 July 2007
Summary
Memer is a child of rape; when the Alds took the beautiful city of Ansul, they desecrated or destroyed everything of beauty. The Waylord they imprisoned and tortured for years until finally he is freed to return to his home. Though crippled, he is not destroyed. His life still has purpose. Memer is the daughter of his House, the daughter of his heart.
The Alds, a people who love war, cannot and will not read: they believe that in words lie demons that will destroy the world. All the c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781842555613 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1842555618 |
| Author: | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 26 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 201mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Chronicles of the Western Shore |
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Le Guin’s crystalline prose and her ability to dramatise political and spiritual issues of our time are unequalled – Amanda Craig * The Times *As always, Le Guin’s language is as airy and sensuous as her concerns are weighty and abstract, every sentence as precise as a spade cut * Washington Post *Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power * Observer *No question about her literary quality: her graceful prose, carefully thought-through premises, psychological insight and intelligent perception – Margaret AtwoodBarbarians-versus-brainiacs may be well-trod turf, but Le Guin sure-footedly makes it new. She creates a protagonist with obvious appeal to her intended audience: a geeky girl with bad hair but a quick intelligence, who nurses a seething contempt for the illiterate thugs who run everything * Los Angeles Times *Effortlessly at the top of her game. Voices… is a marvellously thoughtful and intelligent piece of fiction. … Le Guin’s writing is spare and humane, her imagination forceful and dramatic, and her book is transparently the pick… of the summer * Independent *
About The Author
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. 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.
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