I’m going to pick a book I love, but one most people I talk to don’t care for. It’s Tehanu by Ursula K. LeGuin. It has to be one of my favorite novels ever written.
The writing is straight forward, but elegant. The story is compelling, and the setting rich. It’s a book that prides itself on exploring the little objects and connections in our lives. Yes, there are dragons and wizards, but the threat does not merely come from them. Tenar, the main character, must confront evil on the immediate scale. This is high fantasy writ humbly within the space of a lived life and crafted in the form of a rustic, suspense novel. LeGuin strikes me as one who not only writes her stories from the well of myths, but one who brings her observations of our world to this place and shapes them under myth’s shadow.
Yeah, it’s that good. And most people don’t like it because it’s not “fantastic” enough.
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