![]() ![]() Tigana is beautiful and heartbreaking and romantic and devastating, and no other character does more to exemplify all these qualities than Dianora, a lover of one of the foreign conquerors. Because it’s worth it.īecause, holy shit, Guy Gavriel Kay can write. the name of a place, but that all sorted itself out eventually. It’s difficult to keep up with the names at first – I had trouble remembering which was the name of a person vs. The story begins slowly, and the history of the world comes at you hard and fast. ![]() I’m keeping the description intentionally vague, because to give away too much of the story is to undercut its effect. In short, Tigana is a story set in a land, the Peninsula of the Palm, that has been (mostly) conquered by two foreign sorcerers, splitting the peninsula into two competing factions, and a native son of the Palm wants to rise up and liberate his people. ![]() The character of Dianora represents this last facet most eloquently.ĭianora, really, is the heart of Tigana, and we don’t even meet her until well into the book. It’s about how memories could mean something at one point in our lives, and then over the course of time, come to represent something else completely. It’s about how memories can change, how they shape us, how they define us. It’s about personal memory, institutional memory, cultural memory. ![]() Guy Gavriel Kay says so himself in his author’s note in the book. ![]()
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