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The Other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6) Hardcover – September 13, 2001

by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)

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Book 6 of 6: The Earthsea Cycle

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The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs to return to him so much that she kissed him across the low stone wall that separates our world from the Dry Land-where the grass is withered, the stars never move, and lovers pass without knowing each other. The dead are pulling Alder to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea.

Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able to assume the shape of a woman.

The threat can be confronted only in the Immanent Grove on Roke, the holiest place in the world and there the king, hero, sage, wizard, and dragon make a last stand.

Le Guin combines her magical fantasy with a profoundly human, earthly, humble touch.

Book 6 of 6

The Earthsea Cycle
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256 pages
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Harcourt
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September 13, 2001
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6.25 x 1 x 9 inches
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0151006849
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978-0151006847
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840L
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The greatest fantasies of the 20th century are J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Regrettably, the Earthsea Cycle has not received the fame and sales of Tolkien's trilogy. Fortunately, new Earthsea books have appeared in the 21st century, and they are as powerful, beautiful, and imaginative as the first four novels. The fifth novel and sixth book of the Earthsea Cycle is The Other Wind.

The sorcerer Alder has the power of mending, but it may have become the power of destruction: every night he dreams of the wall between the land of the living and the land of the dead, and the wall is being dismantled. If the wall is breached, the dead will invade Earthsea. Ged, once Archmage of Earthsea, sends Alder to King Lebannen. Now Alder and the king must join with a burned woman, a wizard of forbidden lore, and a being who is woman and dragon both, in an impossible quest to save Earthsea.

Ursula K. Le Guin has received the National Book Award, five Nebula and five Hugo Awards, and the Newbery Award, among many other honors. The Other Wind lives up to expectations for one of the greatest fantasy cycles. --Cynthia Ward

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What a year it's been for Le Guin. First, there was The Telling, the widely praised new novel in her Hainish sequence, followed by Tales from Earthsea, a collection of recent short fiction in her other major series. Now she returns with a superb novel-length addition to the Earthsea universe, one that, once again, turns that entire series on its head. Alder, the man who unwittingly initiates the transformation of Earthsea, is a humble sorcerer who specializes in fixing broken pots and repairing fence lines, but when his beloved wife, Lily, dies, he is inconsolable. He begins to dream of the land of the dead and sees both Lily and other shades reaching out to him across the low stone wall that separates them from the land of the living. Soon, more general signs and portents begin to disturb Earthsea. The dragons break their long-standing truce and begin to move east. The new ruler of the Kargad Lands sends his daughter west in an attempt to wed her to King Lebannen. Even Ged, the former archmage, now living in peaceful, self-imposed exile on Gont, starts to have disturbing dreams. In Tehanu (1990), the fourth book in the series, Le Guin rethought the traditional connection between gender and magic that she had assumed in the original Earthsea trilogy. In her new novel, however, she reconsiders the relationship between magic and something even more basic: life and death itself. This is not what 70-year-old writers of genre fantasy are supposed to do, but then, there aren't many writers around like Le Guin. (Oct. 1)has won a National Book Award, the Kafka Award and a Pushcart Prize.

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In the author's first "Earthsea" novel in ten years, the sorcerer Alder is troubled by the dead and must appeal to the former archmage for help.
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A village mender's love for his dead wife leads him in his dreams to the dry lands of the dead where a kiss from his wife's spirit begins a chain of events that shakes the foundations of the realms of Earthsea. Le Guin's first Earthsea novel in ten years blends old themes and familiar people from previous series books with new characters and fresh stories, demonstrating once again the power of storytelling to transform the known into the unknown and the ordinary into the extraordinary. Le Guin remains a master of subtlety and grace as she finds new and surprising ways to express deep truths cloaked in the trappings of fantasy. A priority purchase for libraries of all sizes.
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The sorcerer Alder makes his way to Ged's remote home on Gont. Alder seeks relief from nightly consuming dreams about being called to "the wall of stones," where hordes of souls cry out for help in ending their suffering. These dreams are but one harbinger of coming change. Another is the reappearance of dragons, once compatible with humans, to reclaim their former lands. Ged sends Alder to Havnor, where Tenar and Tehanu have been called by King Lebannen to advise him about the dragons as well as the princess unwelcomely sent to be his bride. In time, Tehanu, the dragon Orm Irian (whose story is told in "Dragonfly," which concludes Tales from Earthsea [BKL Mr 1 01]), the king, Alder, Tenar, and the princess all figure in righting ancient wrongs and mending the earth. Steeped in Earthsea lore and featuring familiar characters as well as dramatic action, the first full-length Earthsea novel since Tehanu (1990) will leave its readers wanting yet another. The ongoing Earthsea saga began as children's literature years ago but now moves resolutely into the purview of adults, perhaps because the very well written Earthsea books have long appealed to all ages. Certainly, whatever their ages, its fans will rejoice in revisiting Earthsea. Sally Estes
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"Le Guin understands magic and dragons better than anyone, and her writing only gets better with each new book. THE OTHER WIND is a triumph."
--Michael Swanwick, author of Stations of the Tide

"I adored THE OTHER WIND. Real mythmaking, done by a master of the craft. . . . The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream."
--Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman

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Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. Among her honors are a National Book Award, five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a feminist, conservationist, and Taoist, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Chapter 1

Mending the Green Pitcher

Sails long and white as swan's wings carried the ship Farflyer through summer air down the bay from the Armed Cliffs toward Gont Port. She glided into the still water landward of the jetty, so sure and graceful a creature of the wind that a couple of townsmen fishing off the old quay cheered her in, waving to the crewmen and the one passenger standing in the prow.

He was a thin man with a thin pack and an old black cloak, probably a sorcerer or small tradesman, nobody important. The two fishermen watched the bustle on the dock and the ship's deck as she made ready to unload her cargo, and only glanced at the passenger with a bit of curiosity when as he left the ship one of the sailors made a gesture behind his back, thumb and first and last finger of the left hand all pointed at him: May you never come back!

He hesitated on the pier, shouldered his pack, and set off into the streets of Gont Port. They were busy streets, and he got at once into the Fish Market, abrawl with hawkers and hagglers, paving stones glittering with fish scales and brine. If he had a way, he soon lost it among the carts and stalls and crowds and the cold stares of dead fish.

A tall old woman turned from the stall where she had been insulting the freshness of the herring and the veracity of the fishwife. Seeing her glaring at him, the stranger said unwisely, "Would you have the kindness to tell me the way I should go for Re Albi?"

"Why, go drown yourself in pig slop for a start," said the tall woman and strode off, leaving the stranger wilted and dismayed. But the fishwife, seeing a chance to seize the high moral ground, blared out, "Re Albi is it? Re Albi you want, man? Speak up then! The Old Mage's house, that would be what you'd want at Re Albi. Yes it would. So you go out by the corner there, and up Elvers Lane there, see, till you reach the tower..."

Once he was out of the market, broad streets led him uphill and past the massive watchtower to a town gate. Two stone dragons large as life guarded it, teeth the length of his forearm, stone eyes glaring blindly out over the town and the bay. A lounging guard told him just turn left at the top of the road and he'd be in Re Albi. "And keep on through the village for the Old Mage's house," the guard said.

So he went trudging up the road, which was pretty steep, looking up as he went to the steeper slopes and far peak of Gont Mountain that overhung its island like a cloud.

It was a long road and a hot day. He soon had his black cloak off and went on bareheaded in his shirtsleeves, but he had not thought to find water or buy food in the town, or had been too shy to, maybe, for he was not a man familiar with cities or at ease with strangers.

After several long miles he caught up to a cart which he had seen far up the dusty way for a long time as a dark blot in a white blot of dust. It creaked and screaked along at the pace of a pair of small oxen that looked as old, wrinkled, and unhopeful as tortoises. He greeted the carter, who resembled the oxen. The carter said nothing, but blinked.

"Might there be a spring of water up the road?" the stranger asked.

The carter slowly shook his head. After a long time he said, "No." A while later he said, "There ain't."

They all plodded along. Discouraged, the stranger found it hard to go any faster than the oxen, about a mile an hour, maybe.

He became aware that the carter was wordlessly reaching something out to him: a big clay jug wrapped round with wicker. He took it, and finding it very heavy, drank his fill of the water, leaving it scarcely lighter when he passed it back with his thanks.

"Climb on," said the carter after a while.

"Thanks. I'll walk. How far might it be to Re Albi?"

The wheels creaked. The oxen heaved deep sighs, first one, then the other. Their dusty hides smelled sweet in the hot sunlight.

"Ten mile," the carter said. He thought, and said, "Or twelve." After a while he said, "No less."

"I'd better walk on, then," said the stranger.

Refreshed by the water, he was able to get ahead of the oxen, and they and the cart and the carter were a good way behind him when he heard the carter speak again. "Going to the Old Mage's house," he said. If it was a question, it seemed to need no answer. The traveler walked on.

When he started up the road it had still lain in the vast shadow of the mountain, but when he turned left to the little village he took to be Re Albi, the sun was blazing in the western sky and under it the sea lay white as steel.

There were scattered small houses, a small dusty square, a fountain with one thin stream of water falling. He made for that, drank from his hands again and again, put his head under the stream, rubbed cool water through his hair and let it run down his arms, and sat for a while on the stone rim of the fountain, observed in attentive silence by two dirty little boys and a dirty little girl.

Copyright © 2001 by Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt, Inc. All rights reserved. For permission to reproduce this information, go to our Permissions and Copyright Requests page at http://www.harcourtbooks.com/pol-copyright.html.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harcourt; First Edition (September 13, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0151006849
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0151006847
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 840L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9 inches

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (US /ˈɜːrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography.

She influenced such Booker Prize winners and other writers as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell – and notable science fiction and fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Le Guin has resided in Portland, Oregon since 1959.

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Chris S.

A Review of the Digital Version of "The Other Wind" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2011

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I started reading Le Guin's Earthsea series by borrowing the books from the library. Then I received the new Kindle 3 for my birthday, and decided to try reading Tehanu and The Other Wind on it instead of the library books. I was enjoying the series and thought I would enjoy reading them again. However, the digital editions of these books have some serious conversion errors: It would appear that the publisher used optical character recognition (OCR) software to scan the books into a digital edition, without any quality checks after conversion. Given the nature of the series and the importance of language, these are serious flaws. Here are some samples from The Other Wind:

"She asked him to assure the High Bang of the Kargs that his daughter was well..." (location 1117)
Translation: "She asked him to assure the High King of the Kargs that his daughter was well..."
Note: Oddly, this line was regarding one character giving another character this message through an interpreter...

"I will come to conduct you to the kings presence when the fifth hour is told..." (location 1201)
Translation: "I will come to conduct you to the king's presence when the fifth hour is told..." (missing apostrophe)

"...wizard Seppel of Pain..." (location 1276)
Translation: "...wizard Seppel of Paln..."
Note: Paln was constantly misspelled as Pain.

"'Between Pain and Semel, and the Island of Havnor, is only the width of the Pelnish Sea,' said Prince Sege." (location 1283)
Translation: "'Between Paln and Semel, and the Island of Havnor, is only the width of the Pelnish Sea,' said Prince Sege."
Note: At least they got "Pelnish" right...

"Who goes to the dry land when they diet..." (location 1904)
Translation: "Who goes to the dry land when they die..." (die, not diet)
Note: That's actually quite funny, but it's really not appropriate for the conversation!

"The women looked at her, some thinking her plain, some beautifid, some pitying her for having to go barefoot in the palace." (location 1998)
Translation: "The women looked at her, some thinking her plain, some beautiful, some pitying her for having to go barefoot in the palace."
Note: Seriously? Just do a spell-check!!

"Long ago the Grey Mage of Pain had brought ruin on his island by summoning the souls of the dead to advise him and his lords..." (location 2186)
Translation: "Long ago the Grey Mage of Paln had brought ruin on his island by summoning the souls of the dead to advise him and his lords..."
Note: Paln again...

"There had been more than one duel in wizardry between a man of Roke and a man of Pain..." (location 2187)
Translation: "There had been more than one duel in wizardry between a man of Roke and a man of Paln..."

"'What a ragbag you are bringing them, to be sure!' she said. 'A sorcerer with nightmares, a wizard from Pain, two dragons, and two Kargs. The only respectable passengers on this ship are you and Onyx.'" (location 2642)
Translation: "'What a ragbag you are bringing them, to be sure!' she said. 'A sorcerer with nightmares, a wizard from Paln, two dragons, and two Kargs. The only respectable passengers on this ship are you and Onyx.'"

One of the most distracting, and terrible, errors were in names. The series places a huge importance on names, so it's ridiculous that the publisher wasn't as careful. In Tehanu, the publisher constantly misspelled Sparrowhawk as two words: Sparrow hawk. It's subtle, but very distracting.

In the end, given this poor handling of the conversion from the physical book, I would simply wait for a new digital edition with revisions or just get the physical book at the library or a bookstore.

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The Harrowing of Hades

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2002

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Until I read Ursula K. Le Guin's new novel, "The Other Wind," it hadn't occurred to me that previous volumes left unresolved the fate of the souls in Earthsea's equivalent of Hades, i.e. the Dry Land. These mournful undead played a prominent role in "The Farthest Shore," where the Archmage Ged and his companion, Arren descended into the underworld to battle an evil mage.
Ged and Arren returned out of the Dry Land, but left behind those who were neither alive nor truly dead.
Who were those shadows of the living? Why were they condemned to lead such miserable half-lives, in which Arren "saw the mother and child who had died together, and they were in the dark land together; but the child did not run, nor did it cry, and the mother did not hold it or ever look at it. And those who had died for love passed each other in the streets."
"The Other Wind" debates the riddle of a 'true' death, and reveals how the very existence of the Dry Land threatens the people of Earthsea.
Actually there is more debate than action in this latest Le Guin fantasy, but as always she delivers her message through her complex and likeable characters. There lives the true magic in this series.
The reader is first introduced to the plight of the undead through Alder, a recent widower who can magically mend crockery and other mundane items. In a dream, his deceased wife kisses him over the low stone wall that separates the living world from the Dry Land. Subsequent dreams reveal other undead, who beg him to release them from the dark and return them to the land of the living.
Alder flees to the Island of Gont, to seek help from the former Archmage. But old Ged used up all of his magic while defeating the Dry Land mage (in "The Farthest Shore") and he counsels Alder to ask for assistance from the new King.
At the royal residence on Havnor, Alder meets many characters from previous Earthsea stories: Ged's wife, Tenar who was formerly priestess of the Tombs of Atuan; the burned child, Tehanu who can summon dragons; the dragon, Irien who assumes the shape of a woman; and Arren, the young King himself, companion to Ged on his fateful journey to the Dry Land.
King Arren (who now uses his true name, Lebannen) has problems of his own, including rampaging dragons and a heavily veiled princess, foisted off on him by a former enemy who orders the King to marry her. Nevertheless he agrees to help Arren, the sorcerous pot-mender who seems to have acquired the power to destroy the balance between Earthsea's underworld and its realm of the living.
The climax to "The Other Wind" takes place on Roke, the island of Mages, where the author ties all of her loose plot devices together--EXCEPT for the prophecy regarding 'The Woman of Gont.'
Admittedly the former archmage, Ged offered Alder 'a' solution to the prophecy before the sorcerer left Gont, but it wasn't very satisfying.
My hope is that there is time for at least one more Earthsea fantasy --one where the prophecy first revealed in "Tehanu (volume three)" is fully explained.

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James Sterling

I love Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea novels

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2014

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I love Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea novels, but I think the earlier ones were the best. In those, LeGuin seems to have been following her instinct more than her politics (though, even when I first read "A Wizard of Earthsea" in the late 1960s, I thought that Ged's final confrontation with the Gebbeth was a little contrived). In the later ones LeGuin seems to have altered the world of Earthsea seems to have been altered to fit the author's politics. The politics aren't bad, nor her view of women, but I feel that she betrays the honesty in of the earlier books in her revelation that the male wizards have created their power by rejecting the feminine principle and, with it, the reality of death. Also, it makes me sad that she resolves this conflict by bringing "The Art Magic" to an end in order to resolve the problem.

That is not to say that the later books and the issues they bring up are not valid, but in the older books, when humans tried to avoid death, magic and beauty languished, and they were brought back to life when the man representing the urge to live forever was defeated; but in the later books, magic, dragons and magical creativity have to be given away along with the willingness to allow life to end at death. This is a strange inversion of structure of the original stories and one I find depressing.

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David Beeson

A joy to hear that voice from beyond the grave, and a wonderful way to wrap a delightful series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2018

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If you enjoy Ursula le Guin’s books as much as I do but don’t know 'The Other Wind', and if you like your loose ends neatly tied up, a treat awaits you.

For a long time I thought of her Earthsea novels as a trilogy. But then along came 'Tehanu' to make it a quartet. With 'Tales of Earthsea' I lost track of what to call the series – a quintet? a pentalogy? – maybe just a collection.

Then, just a few weeks ago, I discovered a sixth book, 'The Other Wind'. I had a momentary fear that she might not have kept up the standard for yet another novel in the series, but she has. What’s more, it was a joy to read it so short a time after we lost her – it was as though I could hear her voice in something new, to me, from beyond the grave.

That, by the way, is an apt starting point to think about Earthsea. Because if there’s one characteristic of the cycle (hey, maybe that’s the word to use - I notice that others do) that is striking above all others, it’s her handling of the theme of death. These novels never were just a series of children’s books with a wonderful and whimsical mixture of magic and adventure, but even if they had been, the way she handles this difficult theme sets them way above the run of the mill in that genre.

In the world of Earthsea, certain wizards, and in particular the protagonist Ged have the ability to enter a strange land where a dry and dusty hillside slopes down towards a low dry-stone wall. Beyond it, nothing grows, nothing changes, strange stars hang forever static in the firmament above.

Few indeed are the living who can cross that wall and discover what lies beyond. And if they do, they come away with no edifying picture: the dusty landscape is dotted with silent towns, where the dead wander the streets without joy or hope or love, where even if they meet the great passion of their lives, they pass them by without a spark or even recognition.

In 'The Other Wind', Ursula le Guin returns to this theme and wraps it up for us. At the start of a book, we meet a young man, Alder, not even a wizard, merely a village sorcerer, who has been afflicted with a recurring dream. In it he finds himself at that wall and beyond it stands the wife he loved and lost – and she reaches across to touch him. He even bears the mark of that touch, in waking life.

As the dream returns again and again, more and more people join her, pleading with him to set them free, and trying to tear down the wall.

Now Alder is looking for Ged, who has retired from his role as Archmage and lives as a simple farmer on his native island of Gont. The advice Ged gives him will lead to the assembly of a broad group of disparate beings: wizards of both the main schools of Earthsea, representatives of the main groups of men – and women, for women play a major role in this novel – including the inhabitants of the Kargad lands, with their different mythology, a mythology that casts a vital light on the developments that are perturbing them. And the dragons, too, will join them.

Between them, they set out on the urgent quest to find out why the dead are trying to break down the wall and return to the world of the living, and to find a lasting solution to the fearful difficulty they represent.

The resolution is entirely worthy of Ursula le Guin and, indeed, paints a picture of death consistent with her world outlook. It is a view, indeed, I find much the most comforting in all those we’re offered. For that reason alone the book’s worth reading.

And, as it wraps up a series to which she’s not around to add any more, it acts as a wonderful epitaph.

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A Rare Achievement

Reviewed in Australia on February 10, 2017

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Le Guin has managed what few can do: create a satisfying end to a series. The Other Wind was an excellent conclusion to the fantastic Earthsea books. I'm sad to know this is the last but already eager to re-live the series all over again.

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ゲド戦記の主人公はゲドなのかなあ。

Reviewed in Japan on October 25, 2010

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The Other Wind 翻訳の「ゲド戦記」では5巻めの「アースシーの風」に当たる本書、翻訳の方を1，2，3，4巻と読んできて、原作を読みたくなったので手にしました。4巻分を翻訳で読んでるから、基本的な設定、人名、地名、魔法使いとかまじない師とかの専門用語（？）のこのシリーズでの使われ方を知っているのでなんとか読めました。それに最後のなぞ解きの部分なので途中ではやめられなかったなあ。

この本の大きなテーマ、「竜と人間は昔ひとつのものだった」というのがすごいアイデアというか思想だなと思います。興味のある人は1巻のへたれのゲドを我慢して読み進んでみてください。

私にとって「ゲド戦記」と呼ばれるこのシリーズの主役はテナーです。テナーは2巻でアチュアンからゲドが連れ出した巫女さんです。そのあと普通に結婚して子供を産んで、後家さんになったら、虐待された「テルーの歌」のテルー本名テハヌーを養女にしました。この人に一番感情移入できました。大方の人はそうなると思います。

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Andrew D. Cockayne

The rest of Tehanu.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 24, 2019

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If, like me, you're one of those people who owns the first four Earthsea novels as one volume, you need this book. I'm a big fan of Le Guin, but "Tehanu" (first published as "Tehanu, the last book of Earthsea", which it turned out not to be) was quite a disappointment and a terrible way to end the series - if only provisionally.

You see, "Tehanu" is not the story of that character. It is, almost entirely, the story of Tenar; the female protagonist of "The Tombs of Atuan". It mainly covers what happened to her after the events of that book.

A big part of what Tenar did was adopt the child Tehanu, but in "Tehanu", Tehanu herself is very young and mostly silent. She emerges as a character only at the very end of that book, which - my opinion - has no business being called a 'novel' in it's own right at all.

You need to have read "The Tombs of Atuan" to know who Tenar is and her relationship to Ged. You need to read this book to get the remaining three-quarters of Tehanu's story. Once you have the whole thing, it's wonderful stuff, but you do need to have all of it.

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Wakdos

A satisfactory conclusion to the series

Reviewed in Australia on August 5, 2018

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I enjoyed the entire EarthSea series. This final novel tied off all the lose ends.

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