Tathea - Softcover

Perry, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441009700 ISBN 13: 9780441009701

Publisher: Ace Trade, 2002

Synopsis

A former empress, Tathea suddenly finds herself exiled from her kingdom and her former life and embarks on a perilous and extraordinary journey, filled with danger, adventure, wisdom, and new understanding, as she wanders through the Lost Lands. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Perry is the critically acclaimed author of the William Monk and the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt Victorian mystery series, and lives in Portmahomack, Scotland. Tathea is her first work of fantasy, which she describes as her most important book to date.

From Publishers Weekly:

Less a fantasy than an extended allegory about the dissemination of God's word to mankind, this ambitious, engrossing novel by the author of the acclaimed Thomas and Charlotte Pitt Victorian mysteries (The Twisted Root, Forecasts, Aug. 23, etc.) tackles the infinite battle between good and evil through its title character, Tathea. One moonlit night, Ta-Thea--as she is known while Empress of Shinabar, her world's most ancient, advanced civilization--is awakened by screams. Her husband and young son murdered, Ta-Thea flees her home and takes on a new name and an epic journey as she seeks both understanding of her personal tragedy and a reason to continue living. With Ishrafeli, a steadfast comrade who lends support to her quest, Tathea encounters new lands and engages in their inhabitants' clashes with mortal dilemmas of the flesh and the spirit alike. When she has tested her mettle sufficiently and not found it wanting, Tathea witnesses a debate between the Man of Holiness and his adversary, Asmodeus, which leads her to a precious Book, whose teachings she undertakes to divine and share with the world against opposition beyond her imagining. Although Perry's prose tends toward the florid, and she at times sacrifices her characters' dimensionality in favor of homily--spending much of their dialogue and Tathea's thoughts on somewhat repetitive philosophies about the Book--she has devised here a powerful, inventive meditation on the possibilities that lie in and beyond the origin of religion. (Sept.)

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About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Trade
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0441009700
• ISBN 13: 9780441009701
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528