Tehanu (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Fantasy
- Principal Characters: Tenar (Goha Flint), Ged (Sparrowhawk or Hawk), Therru (Tehanu), Ogion, Aspen, Lebannen
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Sexism, Gender roles, Future, Other worlds, Feminism, Farms, farmers, or farming, Islands, Dragons, Ocean
- Locales: Islands, Earthsea (mythic)
Ursula K. Le Gum’s Tehanu is her fourth book to take place in the fantasy world of Earthsea, a large group of islands in a primarily oceanic world. In A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Ged learns the magic arts of his world through error and suffering. In The Tombs ofAtuan (1971), Tenar is persuaded by Ged to abandon her service to the nameless gods of nonbeing on the island of Atuan. In The Farthest Shore (1972) Ged, now Archmage of Earthsea, finds and defeats Cob, a renegade mage who has found a way to become immortal at the cost of destroying creation....
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