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Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers; First edition (April 6, 2009)
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(Annals of the Western Shore 3)So, like. I was reading this trilogy of young-adult books by Ursula K. Le Guin.The first one was, at a certain level of abstraction, about a young man, of whom there are great expectations, who conquers his fear and his ego to find his true power.The second one was, at a similar level of abstraction, about a young woman, trapped in a limited and limiting role by a caste of priests, who is freed by the young man from the first book, and goes off with him.If you see where I'm going with this, you will understand that I had certain expectations concerning _Powers_. Those expectations were, I am happy to say, fully destroyed by the book I actually read; there is no reasonable level of abstraction at which it is similar to _The Farthest Shore_.Gavir is a slave in the town of Etra. He is a slave of a good family, who by and large treat him well, and is being trained as a scholar to teach the next generation of the family's children - even, yes, the slaves. While we see that other slaves are not as well-treated, and indeed one of the family is not so kind, Gavir does not particularly resent being a slave.Then - not to be too spoily - two tragedies strike, resulting in Gavir's - well, not exactly running away from slavery; more like wandering off in a daze.Now, I have briefly and unfairly summarized about two hundred pages of this five hundred page book.The rest of the book is something of a picaresque novel, as Gavir moves from one social situation to another in succession, learning the ways of the world as he goes. Or perhaps it is a quest novel, where the object of the quest keeps shifting. Gavir gains and loses friends and companions, and ultimately winds up in a much better place (no, I don't mean he dies and goes to Heaven!).This almost makes it sound as if the book is aimless; it is not. But it takes its own aim, and it takes it carefully, and it takes its time in making it clear what that aim is. From the first, of course, there is the theme of slavery and power. But power manifests itself in many ways throughout the book: there is Gavir's mysterious ability to remember things, including ones that have not yet happened; there are economic power, political power, military power, physical strength, the power of trust (and betrayal), and the power of charisma. _Powers_ is as carefully titled as _Gifts_ and _Voices_.Gavir is one of Le Guin's most amiable characters. Like many of her protagonists, he begins essentially clueless about a great deal, and gradually learns to negotiate the world and society - yes, it's also a bit of a _bildungsroman_. His learning is organic to the situations he finds himself in,And the writing - is there anything left to say about Le Guin's prose? - is sharp and clean and beautiful and poetic where it needs to be and prosaic where it must. Gavir's voice is his own, quite distinct from Memer's and Orrec's.I have one quibble. It isn't a bad thing, but it is a thing. Le Guin was a master of languages and names; indeed, she wrote an essay (partially in response to Tolkien) on the habit of inventing languages. The quibble, then, is that her made-up languages, especially in her young adult fantasies, have a common sound to them. There isn't a name in the Western Shores, of a person, place, or thing, that wouldn't feel perfectly at home in Earthsea - which probably started me off on the wild goose chase with which I began this review; so now I'll stop.
Powers is billed as the third book in the Annals of the Western Shore, but don’t let that put you off. Apart from being set in the same invented world and with a light crossover of characters, the books are independent stories and can be read in any order.Gavir is an eleven-year old slave boy at the beginning of the story. He is one of the Marsh People, which means he is darker skinned than the other people in his life, apart from his older sister, Sallo. Sallo and Gavir were taken when they were small children, too small to have any memory of their former lives. Now they are slaves in the household of a wealthy family in the city-state of Etra. Gavir is content with his life. He is not a farm slave, laboring in the fields, but a house slave, living in comfort with an enlightened master and his family. In this house, slaves are not beaten or tortured. Slave children play with and are educated alongside the children of the Family. Gavir himself is a promising little scholar, who is being groomed to take over the job of teacher to the household once the slave who currently holds that post grows too old to carry on.Gavir also has powers, hence the title, powers he barely understands himself. The first is that he has occasional visions, brief glimpses of the future. Gavir calls this “remembering,†in the sense of remembering things that have not yet taken place, though Gavir spends most of the story puzzling over what use this power might have, if any.The invented world in which the story takes place and Gavir’s visions are the only real fantasy elements in this novel, which otherwise could be taken as an historical tale set in the ancient Mediterranean world. Oh, but wait! Gavir has one other power: a photographic memory, although the book never describes it in those words. It’s a phenomenon we are familiar with in our time, but surely would seem magical to those living in a less advanced culture, and indeed it does to Gavir and the people who know him.The novel follows Gavir for the next six years of his life, until he’s seventeen. His world seems cozy and secure at first, with his future as a teacher in the household of a kindly master an inviting one. But, alas for Gavir, it is not to be. First, a terrible injustice turns Gavir’s world upside down and compels him to flee his master and Etra, and wander the Western Shore in constant danger. For the relationship between master and slave, as Gavir comes to understand, is based not only on power, but also on trust. A slave must be able to trust the master, and if the master betrays the slave, well, even a slave is capable of betrayal in return.Gavir’s wanderings take him deep into a forest, where he discovers the legends he has heard are true: hidden deep in the wood is a community of escaped slaves, who live in freedom, as equals. Gavir is welcomed among them. He can recite from memory many of the long poems and tales of old for this band of largely illiterate and isolated ex-slaves, which soon makes him a valued and respected member of the community. But in time, there is another injustice, and Gavir must flee again. He makes his way to the marshes, where he reconnects with his clan and his family among the Marsh People. But the Marsh People are an isolated folk with a very different culture. Gavir finds they do not understand him and he cannot understand them. “The slave takers did not only take me from my people,†he muses. “They took my people from me.â€During his stay with the Marsh People, a vision tells him that his former owners do not believe he is dead, as he had hoped, but in fact a slave catcher is tracking him. Gavir now must leave his people, in the hope he can find a place for himself in this world, before the slave catcher has his vengeance. Perhaps Gavir might even at last find a use for his powers.You expect elegantly crafted prose from Le Guin, and she does not disappoint here. Powers is largely a character study, as we watch Gavir grow from a naive, hopeful tween forced to become a man all too soon in reaction to the harsh world he lives in. And, led along by Le Guin’s sure hand, we grow right along with him. I had the misfortune of reading the climax of Gavir’s story late at night and found myself forced to keep reading into the small hours of the morning as my heart pounded in fear for Gavir as the slave catcher closes in, and ended the story the same way Gavir did—with tears in my eyes.Powers is a young adult novel in every sense. It is literally the story of growing up. We can all, like Gavir, recall our sojourn from naive child to disillusioned young adult, wondering all the while what place, if any, this disappointing world holds for us, and so readers of any age can find in him some of our own formative experiences. Gavir’s world is a difficult world, but a textured one. There are no black knights, or white ones, just people making their way through tough circumstances, some more admirably than others. This is a long book, for Gavir has a long journey, but that merely means he has well earned his tears of joy on the final page. Journey by his side, and you will earn yours along with him.
I began reading this while Ms Le Guin was still alive and I was reading it at the time of her passing. At one point I wanted to write her a big Thanks for this wonderful book, an ode to the human spirit in the face of a harsh world. I can't anymore, but I still can express my fascination in this wonderful and wonderfully written account of Gavir's coming of age through his encounters and associations with all these characters in the course of what turns out to be a unique odyssey. In my opinion, this is the best of the three books on the Annals of the Western Shore. It is exceptionally wide in scope, manages to involve (albeit not extensively, but enough) characters from the other two volumes, and incites a lot of thinking on things such as personal freedom, politics, the 'occult', conformity, obedience - but, above all on how a human psychological system yearning to discover itself can use his experiences to grow. A fantastic book, poignant, touching, 'alive', a true Le Guin masterpiece! And I will say it here: Thank You, Ms Le Guin - for everything. Rest In Peace.
This a story about roads, about traveling, about escape. A slave, with the power to see the future, escaping from those who seek to capture and kill him. The world is like medieval Europe—primitive agriculture, poor, ignorant. Not much goes on. There’s a slow drawing out of character, as in other books by Le Guin. There’s a pleasure in the gentle, unhurried unfolding of the narrative. On the other hand, this novel lacks the flashes of vision and originality as in Le Guin’s famous novels, such as “Left Hand of Darkness.†Nothing is really surprising. After a while, the pace becomes a drag, as nothing is revealed. The imagined world is too close to Earth (“tuna†is “tutaâ€). This novel meanders on, with little surprise.
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