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Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYoung Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes \"remembers\" things that are going to happen in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known. 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