The other wind / Ursula K. Le Guin.
Material type:
TextSeries: Le Guin, Ursula K., Earthsea cycle ; bk. 6.Publisher: New York : Houghton Mifflin, [2012]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 266 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780547851419
- 0547851413
- 9780547722436
- 0547722435
- 9780547773728
- 0547773722
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Le Guin Ursula K | EA6 | Available | 33111008427094 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Mending the green pitcher -- Palaces -- The dragon council -- Dolphin -- Rejoining.
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.