Tehanu (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—feminist
- Time of Work: An indefinite time in the future
- Setting: Gont, an island of Earthsea
- 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)
The Plot
Although Tehanu carries the subtitle The Last Book of Earthsea, more Earthsea books could follow. Tehanu contains no definitive endings to the themes of Ursula Le Guin’s earlier Earthsea novels, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1971), and The Farthest Shore (1972), all three collected as Earthsea (1977).
Tehanu’s protagonist is Tenar (Goha Flint), also protagonist of The Tombs of Atuan. Tenar, at the urging of Ged, the Archmage of Earthsea, has left her native Atuan. Now in her...
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