The Other Wind

, #6

Hardcover, 246 pages

Langue : English

Publié 12 janvier 2001 par Harcourt.

ISBN :
978-0-15-100684-7
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5 étoiles (4 critiques)

The final book in the Earthsea Cycle.

The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him 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.

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the crown jewel of Earthsea

4 étoiles

a wonderful ending to a series that (to me) has its ups and downs - the perfect culmination of what the series becomes in the later books. I feel like the themes in this book settled in where previously I had bounced off from them; like all the best capstones of a series, it paints the rest of the two trilogies in a new light, especially in tandem with Tales from Earthsea.

The Other Wind

5 étoiles

"The Other Wind" est le sixième et dernier tome du cycle Earthsea d'Ursula K. Le Guin, également connu en français sous le nom de cycle de Terremer.

Après Tales from Earthsea qui était un recueil de nouvelles, ce dernier tome retrouve la forme romanesque des quatre premiers. Le récit prend la suite de celui du quatrième tome, Tehanu, complété par les informations disséminées dans les nouvelles du cinquième. On comprend d’ailleurs mieux en lisant ce dernier tome pourquoi ces nouvelles du précédent étaient essentielles pour boucler le récit et en comprendre tous les enjeux.

Globalement, l’intrigue tourne autour de la mort et des interactions entre les humains et les dragons, ces créatures fantastiques qui ont pris une importance grandissante tout au long du cycle. On retrouve avec plaisir les personnages des tomes précédents (Ged, Tenar, Tehanu, le roi Lebannen) ainsi que d’autres personnages que l’on apprend à aimer.

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"The Other Wind" by Ursula Le Guin is the final novel of the Earthsea Cycle. Many authors have trouble with the final novel in a series. They sometime struggle to bring all the points together into a satisfying conclusion. But I think that Le Guin really stuck the landing. She wrote a great novel that not only brings various threads from the other novels together but makes you think differently about those other novels. My first reaction upon finishing it, besides immense satisfaction, is that I want to start the series again knowing what I know now. It is an excellent capstone to what has become one of my favorite fiction series.

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