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Tehanu

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1990

The fourth book of the Earthsea Cycle, following a widow named Goha (formerly a great person in a foreign land) who takes in a severely burned child and embarks on a journey to seek the mage Ogion in the mountains. A literary fantasy exploring themes of healing, silence, and transformation.

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What this book knows

Power stripped from a woman and a burned child teaches that naming, care, and survival constitute a wisdom no wizard's art can confer.

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trauma-and-survival

She never really waked. But she makes a sort of gasping. I know there isn't anything you can do.
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Maybe she herself feared the child, as she feared cruelty, and rape, and fire. Was fear the bond that held her?
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self-and-identity

He laid his hand on hers; he spoke his name to her, so that after his death he might be truly known.
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Your own self is in your true name. It is your strength, your power; but to another it is risk and burden.
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calling

There is a freedom beyond that. Beyond payment, retribution. Arha was taught that to be powerful she must sacrifice.
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He carried me from death to life. Arren of Enlad. Lebannen of the songs to be sung. He has taken his true name.
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