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reviewed Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #4)

Ursula K. Le Guin: Tehanu (Paperback, 2004, Pocket Books) 4 stars

Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan—she, an isolated young …

Review of 'Tehanu (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 4)' on Goodreads

4 stars

Wonderful unheroic postscript to the series, the view from age and infirmity and powerlessness of the breakdown of a society built on acquiring and wielding power. From LeGuin's afterword, "the anger of an underdog at social injustice. ... [transcending to] no longer identifying freedom with power, with separating being free from being in control."