- Taschenbuch: 320 Seiten
- Verlag: Tor Books; Auflage: Reprint (März 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0812523628
- ISBN-13: 978-0812523621
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 16,8 x 10,7 x 2,5 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.368.394 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From Booklist
Dean's new novel concerns a village of small farmers and wizards in which simple magic is for children. "Psycho-magic" is the adult business. The real theme involves an almost Confucian rectification of names, replete with much dialogue about what makes A itself instead of B. The tone is genuinely whimsical, neither frivolous nor ponderous, and there is a basic plot, too, about how to keep wolves away from the sheep. Like much of Dean's work, this book is so understated and so comparatively slowly paced that it offers cerebral pleasures very different from those of more action-oriented fantasy. Like Dean's other works, however, it is unlikely to lack readers. Roland Green
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From Kirkus Reviews
Original, oddball, other-world fantasy from the author of Tam Lin (1992). In the past, after a dreadful war between eight contending sorcerers, the Dubious Hills region was placed under an enchantment prohibiting violence. Young children are full of useful magic but lose it when they grow up, acquiring instead an authoritative competence (``coming into knowledge'') in a particular field. Young Arry, for example, feels the pain of others and can issue instructions for its alleviation; her friend Oonan is the doctor; Mally, a psychologist; Halver, the teacher. Arry, whose parents vanished mysteriously (they were thought to have become werewolves), is responsible for her younger sister, Con, and her brother, Beldi. Con, mourning the loss of their parents, has just lost her magic but has not yet acquired knowledge; she suffers a kind of hurt that Arry cannot quantify or come to grips with. When wolves begin to harry the local sheep, Arry suspects that Halver and her parents are among them. But in order to live as a wolf, Halver must give up his knowledge, and Arry realizes that he intends to challenge the ancient spell that keeps violence from the Dubious Hills. Should she allow their society to be tested, changed, perhaps destroyed? Why did her parents become wolves? Should she prevent Halver's turning others into wolves, even if they wish it? These questions build to a harrowing conclusion that seems to promise a sequel. Different and utterly charming, with enormous appeal on several different levels. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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a fascinating exploration of knowledge
22. Januar 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
A wonderful rural fantasy in which a small hilly community is the result of an experiment that renders all the inhabitants with the ability to only know one thing for certain. Only one person in the village knows the proper name for things, only one person knows, truly, what is beautiful, only one person knows when something is broken, and only one person knows how to fix something. People are unsure, dubious, about everything else. Children are not born with their knowledge, they grow into it, and sometimes the revelation can be painful. Arry is the 14-year old physici of the village, the only person that knows when something is broken, she feels the pain of others and must tell them when they are hurting. This is a lot for a 14 year old to deal with. Since her parents disappeared, she must also look after her younger brother and sister, quiet Beldi and spirited Con. She has her hands full, but there are other problems, she feels as if Beldi is hurting, but nothing seems broken. Who's jurisdiction is such a thing? Can she help him, who would know what is wrong? Beldi, of course, is hurting at the absence of his parents, but Arry does not have the 'knowledge' to know this.
The precise nature of knowledge in this story creates the opportunity for some wonderful jokes. There is a constant going from person to person in the village verifying information, as no one can be sure if what someone else says is the truth, there is the perpetually dubious reply 'who says so?', the response of a taunting child in our world, but an earnestly serious response in these dubious hills. When Arry is frustrated, she curses by saying 'Doubt!' and calls the damnable family cats that get into everything 'doubtful' because they are always under her feet. Doubt, of course, is the most frustrating and tentative thing about this hilly place, rendering it perfect for cussing. Dean also takes the lines from poetry by Keats, Gerald Manly Hopkins etc and makes it into the little spells children under 5 use to help out around the village. The lines of such familar poetry used for the little magic that is used in the village is a homely and lyrical touch. the magic is not invasive, it adds just enough of an otherworldly quality to this wonderfully realised world.
Dean is an exceptional world builder, right up there with Ursula Le Guin, but the thing that I love is the minature size of her worlds. They are child-sized worlds for adults. She treats the presence of evil intelligently and delicately in her work, understanding that it is a complex part of being human. Someone in one of the other reviews here critisied the ending of the Dubious Hills, but if you don't appreciate the ending, you've missed the point of the whole book. They have found a way to escape the doubt that plagues their lives, and think how gratifying it is to know things for certain. I think the Dubious Hills is a critical utopia, and an exceptional exploration of knowlege. I'm agog that such a simple story can have such a deeply philosophical edge to it. Dean is, in truth, a master storyteller, she can weave such complex and delightful worlds in so few words. Her language is deft, quiet, simple. But she creates complex, realistic places and situations. This is a superb book.
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Wonderful.
22. Juli 1999
Format:Taschenbuch
It's not quite as lyrical as the Secret Country books, but it's a marvelous read. It's set in the same world, but not the same land, as the Secret Country books, in a strange land where specialization has magically been taken to a bizarre and fascinating extreme.
None of Pamela Dean's books should ever be out of stock or out of print. I cannot praise her unique writing style highly enough. Look for _The Secret Country,_ _The Hidden Land,_ and _The Whim of the Dragon,_ too; they're among the very best fantasy ever written.
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The beauty and the strangeness of The Dubious Hills...
31. Juli 1996
Format:Taschenbuch
Reading this was like returning to a home long-yearned-for.
(Beloved in the same lost way I love Narnia; I cannot do
otherwise.) The world is that of the Hidden Land, also known
as the Secret Country. It is beautiful and yet deeply strange,
and it catches at your heart with joy and sorrow. But the
region is a different one, heart-stoppingly so.
I loved this story. It is not exactly like the other three
set in this world, true. But the style is the same, and the
way she mixes in things known and not. There is also mystery
to it, like her other tales. You will puzzle out what is
happening at the same time you are enthralled by it.
(Beloved in the same lost way I love Narnia; I cannot do
otherwise.) The world is that of the Hidden Land, also known
as the Secret Country. It is beautiful and yet deeply strange,
and it catches at your heart with joy and sorrow. But the
region is a different one, heart-stoppingly so.
I loved this story. It is not exactly like the other three
set in this world, true. But the style is the same, and the
way she mixes in things known and not. There is also mystery
to it, like her other tales. You will puzzle out what is
happening at the same time you are enthralled by it.
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