**The Newbery Honorwinning second novel in the renowned Earthsea series from Ursula K. LeGuin gets a beautiful new repackage.** In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, and everything is taken from herhome, famil
The Tombs of Atuan
β Scribed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- en-CA
- Weight
- 89 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Ged is encountered years later in an dark, underground labyrinth by the young High Priestess Arha, also called
Tenar. She was taken from her family as a girl to become a priestess to the Nameless Ones. Ged is a powerful
wizard seeking the missing half of the Ring of Erreth-Akbe, on which is engraved the broken Rune of Peace.
She makes him her prisoner, but sees that she is bound by meaningless ritual.
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