Till We Have Faces: Difference between revisions

''"Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"'' }}

 

 

It is presented as the record—and the formal complaint against the gods—of Orual, daughter of the King of Glome, a pagan kingdom to the north of ancient Greece. Her father, hot-tempered and prone to violence, has little love for his three daughters, least of all for ugly Orual. Her only friends in the palace are her beautiful half-sister Istra and her tutor, a Greek slave who she only knows as "the Fox".

* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Istra's mother died in childbirth, and their father does not care for any of his daughters, so Orual comes to see herself as Istra's mother.

* [[Self-Serving Memory]]: Pretty much the entire first part of the book.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Orual and the married Bardia.

* [[Title Drop]]: "How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?"

 

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