Tigana is one of the best, is the best, fantasy I believe I have ever read. Maybe something will top it, but it would take a lot. The story is magnificent, set in a world that faintly echoes of Renaissance Italy. Tigana reaches down and touches you, and changes the way you think forever.
The characters are unique and engaging, showing all aspects of the range of human characteristics. The women are not too submissive, nor are they feministic in their abilities. Some, (Catriana) are definitely strong women, able to take care of themselves, but not annoyingly so. The men are not stupidly masculine either, but have a range of emotions that are put forth with such eloquence that one is truly able to not only understand these feelings, but empathize with.
The setting is on a peninsula, The Palm, one country split into nine provinces and fought over by two invading warlords.
Then you have the actually story, which crowns the characters and setting. The story is of a land whose very name has been erased and a people willing to die for that name to once again grace the ears of those, who might never have cared. And that's just scratching it.
This is a fantasy that cannot even be remotely compared to any of Tolkien's work, for it is (I would not dare to say better, for that is dependent on the person) not even of the same genre of Fantasy. There is no quest, as it were, only a desperate act of hope, not against evil, but against oppression. The great battles fought here are not defined by Good and Evil (it echoes of our own world, where things are not so easily defined), but by revenge, honor, lust, power and love. Even in the oppressors, love.
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