Daughter of Lir
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- 3,99 €
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- 3,99 €
Publisher Description
Long years after the White Mare came to the people of the Mothers, bringing the wild horsemen from the sea of grass and changing the world forever, the world is changing again. The Mother of Lir is dead, her heir cast out amid dire omens. War is coming–such a war as the people have never seen, fought with a new and terrible weapon: the chariot.
Rhian, potter’s child and White Mare’s chosen, ventures with Emry the prince of Lir into the sea of grass and undertakes to steal the enemy’s weapon. But that enemy is not at all what they expected. In Minas, prince and maker of chariots, and his mother Aera, they find a remarkable and deadly kinship–and forge an alliance that will be both the destruction and the salvation of Lir.
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Tarr, a historian turned historical fantasist, follows White Mare's Daughter with another richly imagined tale of priestess/warrior culture clash. The Bronze Age city of Lir, founded by the matriarchal horse-goddess worshippers of the prequel, faces an impending war against invaders armed with the most fearsome device ever: the chariot. The story begins when ill omens persuade Lir's Priestess Mother to reject her long-awaited baby daughter, who is then raised in obscurity by a potter and his wife. Rhian grows up intelligent and willful, the wind whispering visions to her, her dreams filled with images of a powerfully destructive war machine. Riding off from her village astride the living goddess White Mare after she is passed over by a priestess recruiter, Rhian joins forces with Prince Emry, her brother by birth as well as in arms. They travel to the land of their enemies, where the king has fallen victim to the witchery of his young wife, Etena, despite the courageous efforts of his first wife, Aera, and his sons, Minas and Dais. Disguised as traders, Rhian and Emry master the art of building chariots and the politics of patriarchal polygamy. Knowing they will someday meet in battle, Rhian and Etena make a daring trade Emry for Minas. Full of adventure and romance, Tarr's tale tops her usual fare (The Queen of Swords, etc.) through its ingenious evocation of early civilizations sharing knowledge, culture and family. Lir's matriarchal utopia will please feminists and romantics alike, while the war scenes will satisfy others' thirst for blood and justice.
