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Chargement... The White Tribunal (1997)par Paula Volsky
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In a land pockmarked with the grim relics of a long-ago war live a people consumed by the fear of magic. Those suspected of sorcery die at the hands of the infamous White Tribunal. And death and terror will reign until a young man pawns his soul for the temporary power to destroy his murdered father's false accusers. Now, disguised as a foreigner and with his time measured by the sands of a magical hourglass, Tradain liMarchborg enters the capital city of Lis Folaze, stronghold of the White Tribunal's power. Here his path will cross that of the beautiful Glennian liTarngrav, whose own mission will lock them together in a vortex of love, revenge, death, and enchantment that could save a land...or thrust them both--as Tradain's hourglass sands run out--into eternal torment. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book is loosely based on the Spanish Inquisition with a bit of Volsky's magical realism throw in. The time of the wizards is past and in their place is a White Tribunal that exists to ensure that magic does not get out of hand. In the time since the Tribunal was created to the book's timeframe, about 100 years, the latest priest of the White Tribunal has begun seizing estates and bringing people to the torments that he has dreamed up to enable their "confessions" to working magic.
Again, the subject matter could not be more relevant: Salem, MA; the Inquisition; the Hollywood Blacklist; and the idea of an enemies list are all the undercurrent that she brings to light in her brilliant way of capturing her characters' psyches. What is not quite as astounding from her past books is the way in which the demons who control the magic are explained. It almost feels that she wrote herself down a path, came up with an idea of another plane co-existing with ours, that is the source of magic in this world. Except that the demon that makes magic happen in our world has supplanted the true deity that the White Tribunal worships and so there is chaos on the Astral Plane. That explanation was a little too pat for me and could possibly have been better developed. But again, the re-envisioning of various times of trials was very well done. ( )