Nebula Award Best Novel Winner
Powers
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Summary
Ursula K. Le Guin follows Gavir, a young slave with the gifts of perfect memory and visions of the future, who flees bondage after a devastating loss and journeys across the Western Shore in search of freedom and belonging. The coming of age story examines slavery, memory, and the meaning of home. It completes Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore, a thoughtful sequence written for younger and adult readers alike.
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Historical Context & Significance
Powers is the third book in Ursula K. Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, following Gifts and Voices.