Will she and the people of Ansul at last be brave enough to rebel against their oppressors? Voices is a novel that readers will not soon forget. Then an Uplands poet named Orrec and his wife, Gry, arrive, and everything in Memer's life begins to change. But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is a refuge, a place of family and learning, ritual and memory-the only place where she feels truly safe. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. Le Guin brings readers a haunting and gripping coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence, intolerance, and magic. This is Memer’s story, and Gry’s and Orrec’s, and it is the story of a conquered people craving freedom.Summary: In this second novel in the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, Ursula K. His wife Gry’s gift is that of calling she walks with a halflion who both frightens and fascinates the Alds. Orrec is a story-teller, the most famous of all: he has the gift of making. Gry Barre of Roddmant and Orrec Caspro of Caspromant have arrived in the city.
All the city’s libraries, the great treasure trove of knowledge of ages past, are burned, except for those few volumes secreted inthe Waylord’s hidden room.īut times are changing. The Alds, a people who love war, cannot and will not read: they believe that in words lie demons that will destroy the world.
Memer is the daughter of his House, the daughter of his heart. The Waylord they imprisoned and tortured for years until finally he is freed to return to his home. Memer is a child of rape when the Alds took the beautiful city of Ansul, they descecrated or destroyed everything of beauty.
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