The Saga of the Renunciates (The Shattered Chain, Thendara

The Saga of the Renunciates (The Shattered Chain, Thendara House, City of Sorcery) (Darkover)

In the three novels which comprise The Saga of the Renunciates, Marion Zimmer Bradley tells the masterful tales of two valiant women who face and try to break the invisible chains of custom, convention, habit, and expectation with which society binds women, and women bind themselves.

Magdalen Lorne is a Terran woman born and reared on Darkover. She thinks herself the perfect Terran undercover Intelligence agent, and disguises herself as a Free Amazon to enable her to fulfill a mission to free a Terran man from kidnappers. But when she herself is captured by a band of real Renunciates, she discovers they have a harsh punishment for any pretender: she must swear the Oath of the Free Amazons, relinquish her former life, and become a Renunciate in reality.

Jaelle has been raised in the harsh patriarchal environment of the Dry Towns. Her mother Mellora is a Comyn woman who has been kidnapped in order to breed laran-gifted offspring for her barbarian â€œhusband.â€ But when a desperate, pregnant Mellora dies in childbirth following a daring escape aided by a band of Renunciates, the still young Jaelle is adopted into the Guild, and becomes the Free Amazon Jaelle nâ€™ha Mellora, a woman who has never known kindness from a man.

Together Magda, now known as Margali nâ€™ha Ysabet, and her Guild-sister Jaelle will follow a twisting course neither could have predicted. A course which will lead them to question every aspect of themselves and of their two so-different societies. And one which will eventually set them on a life-threatening journey not only to the frozen ends of the physical world, but to the perilous limits of the spiritual overworld as well.

Country	USA
Author	Marion Zimmer Bradley
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
Brand	Bradley, Marion Zimmer
EAN	9780756400927
Edition	1st
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0756400929
Label	DAW
Manufacturer	DAW
MPN	9780756400927
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	1120
PartNumber	9780756400927
PublicationDate	2002-08-01
Publisher	DAW
ReleaseDate	2002-08-01
Studio	DAW

The Saga of the Renunciates (The Shattered Chain, Thendara House, City of Sorcery) (Darkover)

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