![]() There is some slight conflict, the reappearance of this man, the wizard in Re Albi, and Ged’s loss of powers, but most of the book deals with Tenar thinking about what sort of power she holds as a woman, why men are the only people in Earthsea who hold all the power, and what sort of life does this mean for Therru. Most of Tehanu does not revolve around a plot. Le Guin decided to deal with issues of gender in the second entry in the series, The Tombs of Atuan, which also stars Tenar, but again in The Farthest Shore, there are few women at all. The first novel in the series, A Wizard of Earthsea has almost no women in it at all. The best parts of Tehanu are also its biggest flaws. ![]() ![]() This begins the main conflict between Tenar and a wizard in the city of Re Albi, and the reappearance of one of the men who harmed the little girl, Therru. The story begins when Tenar is called to visit Ogion, her former teacher and father figure who is on his deathbed. Both of her children are grown, but she is now raising a girl who was beaten, burned, and left disabled by her parents. ![]() The story begins twenty-five years since we have last seen Tenar and the beginning of this novel overlaps with the end of the third Earthsea novel, The Farthest Shore. Le Guin is the fourth installment in the Earthsea Cycle, and the second to focus on the character of Tenar. ![]()
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