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by Ursula Le Guin (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Orion Childrens; hardcover edition (2 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1842552058
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842552056
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 467,920 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In The Other Wind, Le Guin revisits some of the material for which she is most famous--the magical world of Earthsea, whose scattered islands are the home of an inventively conceived magic of checks and balances. Once before, in the fourth book Tehanu, with its hideously burned child who is part dragon, Le Guin reconsidered what she had already written, forcing her readers to abandon complacent enjoyment of the heroic in favour of something rather more straight-edge and critical.

Now, with hitherto friendly dragons burning humans out of their homes and the dead whispering ominously in a sorcerer's dreams, she questions her own premises even further. Ged, the burned-out magus of the first three books, and his wife Tenar are here, but peripheral; this is the tale of the tinker mage Alder and his dreams of his dead wife and how he finds himself caught up in the affairs of the great and good.

This is a calmer, more satisfying book than Tehanu; it is as if Le Guin is less angry with herself and her audience for the popularity of the first three books, more prepared to accept one sort of good and force us to move on from it to a more mature and ascetic vision. As always, she writes in a crisp, lyrical prose that approaches the sublime; this is a book about enlightenment that makes us believe it possible. --Roz Kaveney



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Le Guin is one of the most distinguished of SF writers, and her adult titles have achieved classic status. Her children's books, too, are very highly regarded, and her Earthsea trilogy is an enduring classic. This is the first new Earthsea novel since Tehanu was published in 1990 and is keenly awaited.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Takes your mind on a journey to big questions, 21 Jul 2003
This review is from: The Other Wind: An Earthsea Novel (Paperback)
I have recently embarked on the sumptuous project of re-reading childhood classics, and the Eartsea books especially have provided that gratifying sense of rediscovering a delight, while seeing new adult-related depths to it. To read them as wizard-adventures is to miss out on their almost Taoist meditations on death, freedom,fear - moving and noble themes.

All the Earthsea books I've rediscovered concern the painful relationship between the living and the Dry Land - our human fear and grief at the thought of dying and giving up everything here - and the destructive results of trying to avoid that fate. The Other Wind contains a redemption of sorts, and a redeemer. It is very interesting to draw parallels between this and Christian myths of redemption and death, because while Le Guin creates a salvation story of sorts, she rejects the dream of an afterlife of the type we are used to from the world religions.

Le Guin's narrative is such that these kinds of thoughts arise almost incidentally while reading the interesting, exciting, well-characterised tale (dragons!). The questions dealt with are large, the choices unforgiving, but theses are always tied to the personal dilemma of a character. This ensures that ideas never float around in the abstract and it becomes very easy to take the questions on personally.

The Earthsea world is as always deftly and evocatively described, and the language is so smooth and powerful that you can be transported even on a ten-minute bus journey. After I finished the book, its mood and ideas remained with me: a kind of sadness at the inevitable choices we face: freedom or possession; "to fly or to dwell", to give up what you love.

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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, 26 Aug 2003
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This review is from: The Other Wind: An Earthsea Novel (Paperback)
And wow! And even more wow! If you loved the Earthsea Quartet you'll be blown away by this sequel. It was more than worth waiting for. I read it twice through and can't wait to read it again, once it's been round the rest of the family. I always felt that the issues raised at the end of the Quartet were too big and powerful to just be left where they were and Ursula Le Guin obviously realised that too. This story takes the reader even deeper into Earthsea's past, present and future, explaining, expanding and finally resolving the stories of Tehanu, Tenar, Lebannen and Ged in the most spectacular and breath-taking way. What a story-teller she is! By the way, it would be helpful, but not essential to read the short stories, 'Tales from Earthsea' first. These are a sort of prequel to the sequel and extremely interesting in their own right.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dragons suddenly appear in an empty sky, 10 May 2002
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The Earthsea trilogy started in the year I was born. I loved the books when I was little. Tehanu, a few years ago, was an unexpcted treat: bringing Ged and Tenar together, the way you knew it was meant to be. Now, like a dragon appearing in an empty sky, a book _after_ the "Last" book of Earthsea bringing all the threads together in a poetic, watm loving, so right way. I loved it.
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