- On ne chante pas seulement avec sa voix, remarqua-t-elle. On chante avec son esprit. La plus belle voix au monde ne sert à rien si l'esprit ne connaît pas les chansons.
Tehanu is the fourth book of the Earthsea Cycle, written 18 years after the third book. It tells a different type of story and has a different tone from the earlier books. It’s a direct sequel in that it continues where the third book left off. It actually starts slightly before the ending of the...
A very good book, although different from the previous Earthsea books (which is understandable given that it was written nearly twenty years after the The Farthest Shore). Le Guin takes a low magic, low action look at life in the world of Earthsea in this novel, but the issues she explores - the se...
4th book in the Earthsea trilogy. A masterpiece, of course. What Le Guin isn't? This one gives us a clearer picture of Ged as an old man, and so much more besides.
Tehanu was not a bad book, it was a rather pointless and indifferent one. Of course I can't deny how masterful LeGuin's prose is and how awesome that last chapter was, but at the end of the day a book without a strong plot is not good enough for me. There's too much introspection, thoughts, flashbac...
Le Guin's political and philosophical messages are a bit too obvious here and not quite as well intergrated into the story as they are in the others in the cycle.
An oddity. The narrative, set in the well-known Earthsea setting, for the most part involves a domestic plot, wherein two has-beens take in a juvenile victim of sexual assault and handle the complexities of bucolic village life. The setting is supernatural, but the vast majority of the story is no...
After reading the first three books of Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Cycle, I wanted to know more about the characters, especially what happened to Ged after he returned from the Land of the Dead in The Farthest Shore. My husband may have forced me into reading the first three books in the series, but I ...
This is a hard book to like. Clearly stung by feminist criticism of the Earthsea series, Le Guin wrote the fourth book as a feminist novel about the abuse of women by men. In every chapter of Tehanu a female character is either insulted, neglected, abandoned, or physically abused by a male. To to...
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