The Other Wind
Ursula K. Le Guin
ACE Books, 1/2003
ISBN:044100993X
This new, fifth, Earthsea novel pits Ged, Tenar, and Tehanu against the dead.
A dragon shows
the hard way to salvation.
Le Guin shows us the politics of the Archipelago, the crisis caused
by the dragons who have come in great flights setting fire to the forests and islands in the west,
and the richness of the city: painted bridges, towers topped with sword blades, ships with sails
like swan wings.
The narrative style is poetic and possesses the simple dignity and compelling
rhythm of both fairy tale and epic.
|
