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”Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?”
The old woman was rocking, chanting, lost in her incantation; but Tenar sat upright, and split a reed down the center with her thumbnail.
“I will,” she said.
She split another reed.
“I lived long enough in the dark,” she said.
A beautiful exploration of gender, age, power, and powerlessness. Le Guin tackles these issues with the complexity, gravity, and empathy that they require.
I loved seeing Tenar and Ged again, and I loved the exploration of the ways in which they love each other but also struggle to understand each other's experiences and perspectives. I loved Therru and the compassion with which Tenar raises her.
I wasn't expecting this to be my favourite Earthsea book (so far), given how different it is to the three that precede it. But I really enjoyed the different perspective on the world, especially as it is still so rare for the protagonist of books to be elderly women.