Tehanu

mass market paperback, 281 pages

English language

Published Nov. 3, 2001 by Simon Pulse.

ISBN:
978-0-689-84533-8
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OCLC Number:
50191699

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In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician who has lost his powers.

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An essential book

I generally prefer novels to short stories, and might have skipped over this entry in the Earthsea series if I wasn't reading all of them with a group. So, I'm glad that I am reading them with a group, because I really enjoyed this book, and think that it is an essential part of the series.

I enjoyed some of the stories more than others, but there were none that I disliked at all. Overall, they very much enriched my understanding of Earthsea.

One of the things that is fascinating to me about reading this series is that I can see Le Guin growing as a writer. In particular, I see her developing the confidence to write realistic female characters, rather than the unsatisfying female characters which I think is what she felt she had to write in her earliest books (when she included female characters at all).

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Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Ged (Fictitious character)
  • Magic
  • Wizards
  • Fiction