Guy Gavriel Kay
THE CURSE
THE YARD FOOL
(Tigana, Tigana II 1990)
The flowering Tigana is made equal to the ground by the
Magier and Tyrannen Brandis. So that content, he does not ensure for
the fact that the name of the country from the memory of humans
disappears. Only who was born before this curse in Tigana, can itself
remind at the names of the country. For this reason it is important
that the long-lived Magier is geschubst in the the other world,
before the last Tiganer this way must go otherwise is the name and
the memory for eternally extinguished. Which may naturally occur in
no case.
That looks at first sight like usual food like proven cord sample:
With good good ones, rather bad bad ones and each quantity of reasons
for drastic measures of the good parliamentary group. Whole also few
magic, without kites, without dwarves, without einhoerner and also
without elevation bits.
But the patient reader is recompenced: We live finally in the
Neunzigern, and little ambivalence must be. The action is richly, the
characters finely drawn. The Fieslinge is nevertheless not always
only fies, and there are of it two which balances itself mutually.
Thus it uses thus nothing to complete one because then the misery
would eliminate only more badly and never more. The other
parliamentary group is also not only noble, but has itself quite also
with own weaknesses to argue. The fight is led on many levels. It
becomes occasional correctly bizarr. (if for example night
transducers after the income of a certain drunkenness with freshly
picked ears against the bad in its various forms fight.)
The Tigana cycle belonged with considerable security to the better
Fantasy and is clearly fewer infantil than some important factories
of this category. Deterring is however the high price for the two
tapes. Thus only a scarce comes out ' recommendable '.
Heyne 06/5291 and 06/5291, 543 or 382 pages, DM 16.90/14.90
Erik Carpenter
