Powers
core novel 2007 Annals of the Western Shore
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.09 (5,633 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 502 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780152057701 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Powers follows Gavir, a young slave with precognitive abilities who serves as a tutor to the children of the household that owns him in the city of Etra, a life he has known since childhood and has largely made peace with despite its constraints. When a devastating loss shatters the fragile stability of his position within the household, Gavir is forced to flee into the wider world as a hunted wanderer with no clear place to belong, relying on his wits and his gift to survive outside the only structured life he has ever known. His journey eventually brings him into contact with the wider world explored in the earlier novels Gifts and Voices, including some of their own characters, as Gavir searches for a place, and a purpose, he can finally call his own.
Where it sits
- Universe: Annals of the Western Shore
- Series: Annals of the Western Shore core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Awards (verified)
- Nebula Award (Best Novel), 2008: won
Notes
- From the series record (Annals of the Western Shore): A young-adult fantasy trilogy distinct from Le Guin's Earthsea -- shares no characters, setting, or continuity.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Annals of the Western Shore: position 3 of 3: previous Voices (2006)
Sources
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