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Tehanu
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Earthsea: Book 4

Tehanu (1990) (edit title/settings)

by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) (edit contributors)

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Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan -- she, an isolated young priestess, he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him not... read more

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  • Moss: A village witch and kind woman
  • Therru: A child who is adopted by Tenar
  • Heather: A girl goatheard who is considered slow by the villagers, but kind.
  • Lark: Tenar's daughter
  • Lebannen: King and friend of Sparrowhawk
  • Tenar: A woman who was a priestess and was rescued by Sparrowhawk and brought to Gont.
  • Goha: Another name for Tenar
  • Kalessin: The Eldest Dragon. He takes an active role in this book.
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  • Flint: A homeless man and criminal
  • Sparrowhawk: A man who was Archmage and is now a goatherd for Tenar. He travels with Tenar and Therru when they go to take care of the affairs of Ogion.
  • Erisen: A mage who has taken a dark path
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  • “Ged: Power belongs to men. If women had power, what would men be but women who can’t bear children? And what would women be but men who can? Tenar: Haven’t there been queens? Weren’t they women of power? Ged: Men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn’t hers is it? It isn’t because she’s a woman that she’s powerful, but despite it. Tenar: Why are men afraid of women? Ged: If your strength is only the other’s weakness, you live in fear.”
    Paraphrase of conversation between Ged and Tenar in Chapter 12
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  • Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark.”
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  • a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?”
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  • “If your strength is only the other’s weakness, you live in fear,”
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  • The haze had risen and not many stars were visible. One of those she had seen from indoors was the white summer star that they called, in Atuan, in her own language, Tehanu. She did not know the other one. She did not know what they called Tehanu here, in Hardic, or what its true name was, what the dragons called it.
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  • A wife, a farmer’s wife, a mother, a householder, undertaking the power that a woman was born to, the authority allotted her by the arrangements of mankind.
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First Sentence edit see section history

AFTER FARMER FLINT OF THE MIDDLE Valley died, his widow stayed on at the farmhouse.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 4 of 6 in Earthsea. (standard series)

Preceded by The Farthest Shore, and followed by The Other Wind.

This is book 44 of 95 in Estrela do Mar. (community list)

Preceded by The Amber Spyglass, and followed by Os 5 Moklins - O Legado Final.

This is book 10 of 157 in Fantasy Book Review Top 100 fantasy books of all time. (community list)

Preceded by The Iron Man, and followed by A Game of Thrones.

This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0689315953
Page Count: 226

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  • Library of Congress: PZ7.L5215Te
  • Dewey: 813

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • A Wizard of Earthsea
  • The Tombs of Atuan
  • The Farthest Shore

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