Voices (Annals of the Western Shore #2)

Voices is Ursula Le Guin’s second book in the Annals of the Western Shore collection. The story takes place seventeen years after Gifts. The main character, Memer, lives in a city taken over by the ignorant neighboring country – a people who believe that books and written words are evil.

Before the siege Memer’s people were scholars. Today, all books that have not been thrown into the Sea by the Alds, are hidden – to be caught with one would mean death. But things may be about to change. A story-teller and his wife come to town. They are Orrec and Gry of the Uplands and they give Memer hope of a brighter future.

The third book, Powers, is due out in September of this year.

Le Guin, Ursula K. (2006). Voices. New York: Harcourt Inc.