Ursula Le Guin, The Other Wind

Luke Shelton (University of Glasgow)

Ed. by Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2001

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Published by Harcourt in 2001,

The Other Wind

is the final volume of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea cycle. It was published in the same year and by the same publisher as

The Tales of Earthsea

, a collection of stories set within the same fictional world. In a way this publication history is unfortunate for the novel.

The Tales of Earthsea

have been granted several notable awards, and this has caused the collection of short stories to outshine the text that truly concludes the cycle.

The action of the story takes place around fifteen years after the story of Tehanu. The novel begins much like the other books in the series, by focusing on a single protagonist. In this case, a sorcerer named Alder travels around the archipelago trying to find an answer to his recurring nightmare. When he

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Citation: Shelton, Luke. "The Other Wind". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 February 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24761, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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