Voices - Ursula K.Le Guin

Quite a few of LeGuin's books are shelved in children/young readers sections of the libraries. I don't really know why it is so, as her tales are universally readable, enjoyable and there is nothing childish or simplistic about them - in some ways they are more grown up that many supposedly adult examples of fantasy (and no, I don't mean Gor). They certainly have a universal appeal, as "proper" myths, fairly tales and legends often do. The narrator and heroine of "Voices" is a teenager, though: Memer, a child of rape conceived during an invasion of the beautiful and peace-loving merchant city of Ansul by the Alds of the desert. The events ...