![]() ![]() Tenar lives on her own at Flint's property – Oak Farm – and is lonely and uncertain of her identity. It is mentioned that Ged was a bit disappointed in – and did not understand – Tenar's choice of a life.Īt the book's outset her husband is now dead and her children grown up. Instead, she married a farmer called Flint with whom she had two children, called Apple and Spark, and became known to the locals as Goha. For some time she lived with Ged's old master, the mage Ogion – but though fond of him, rejected Ogion's offer to teach her magic. She had rejected the option of life in aristocratic Havnor, and instead arrived on Gont. Tehanu begins slightly before the conclusion of the previous book in the series, The Farthest Shore, and provides some information about the life of Tenar after the end of The Tombs of Atuan. Tehanu continues the stories of Tenar, the heroine of the second book of the Earthsea series The Tombs of Atuan, and Ged, the hero of the first book, A Wizard of Earthsea. It won the annual Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. It is the fourth novel set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea, following almost twenty years after the first three Earthsea novels (1968–1972), and not the last, despite its subtitle. ![]() Tehanu / t ə ˈ h ɑː n uː/, initially subtitled The Last Book of Earthsea, is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. ![]()
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