_Tigana_, by Guy Gavriel Kay
Dec. 2nd, 2002 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semperfionaOriginal link: http://www.livejournal.com/talkpost.bml?journal=bookwhores_anon&itemid=1949
Another of my all-time favorite books, one which I reread about yearly, is Tigana. Yesterday I realized I was yearning to read it again, and tonight I've just reread the first section for what is probably the tenth or twelfth time. And still I cried at this passage:
[Devin] said, "Then this is something that has been stolen from me all my life. Will you...give it back to me? Will you tell me the name of the land where I was born?"
Those two sentences summarize much of the plot of the novel: a defiant province has had its name erased by the sorcery of the conqueror, and its people strive to regain both their freedom and their name. You could learn that much from the cover blurb. What you might not realize from it though is how stunningly beautiful the book is and how much you will be caught up in the struggle.
No one I have recommended this book to has failed to like it.
Another of my all-time favorite books, one which I reread about yearly, is Tigana. Yesterday I realized I was yearning to read it again, and tonight I've just reread the first section for what is probably the tenth or twelfth time. And still I cried at this passage:
[Devin] said, "Then this is something that has been stolen from me all my life. Will you...give it back to me? Will you tell me the name of the land where I was born?"
Those two sentences summarize much of the plot of the novel: a defiant province has had its name erased by the sorcery of the conqueror, and its people strive to regain both their freedom and their name. You could learn that much from the cover blurb. What you might not realize from it though is how stunningly beautiful the book is and how much you will be caught up in the struggle.
No one I have recommended this book to has failed to like it.
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Date: 2017-04-13 02:39 pm (UTC)