Hardcover, 246 pages

English language

Published Jan. 12, 2001 by Harcourt.

ISBN:
978-0-15-100684-7
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The final book in the Earthsea Cycle.

The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him 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.

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"The Other Wind" by Ursula Le Guin is the final novel of the Earthsea Cycle. Many authors have trouble with the final novel in a series. They sometime struggle to bring all the points together into a satisfying conclusion. But I think that Le Guin really stuck the landing. She wrote a great novel that not only brings various threads from the other novels together but makes you think differently about those other novels. My first reaction upon finishing it, besides immense satisfaction, is that I want to start the series again knowing what I know now. It is an excellent capstone to what has become one of my favorite fiction series.

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