We follow several characters throughout the story as we all ask the questions of what memory plays in crafting the people we are today and what would you do to reclaim something so vital to your upbringing?įirst person we follow is the musician Devin. The only ones immune to this curse are local wizards who have now gone into hiding since they are being hunted. The land is now referred to as Lower Corte and its history, traditions, and customs are shrouded in mystery. During the war, Brandin lost his son in the skirmish and decides to curse the land of Tigana by striking the memory of it from every person living on the peninsula. The Peninsula of the Palm has been invaded and conquered by the wizard Brandin and the whole land has put under his rule. The amount of research, studies, and imagination Kay put into this novel is astonishing and it deserves a place with the all-time classics of this genre. This standalone fantasy novel Tigana takes place in a region called the Peninsula of the Palm and resembles Renaissance Italy as well as several character names having Italian pronunciations. For those of you who are new to Guy Gavriel Kay, apart from his own novels he is best known for his editorial contributions to The Silmarillion along with Christopher Tolkien. Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian fantasy writer whose works are known to have settings that resemble real places during historical periods.
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