5/20/2023 0 Comments The curse of chalion![]() Penniless and hoping to be thought dead, he returns to the house where he served as a page, is remembered fondly by the lady of the house, and is set as the secretary-tutor for the lady’s granddaughter, the Royesse Iselle. The Plot: Lord Cazaril returns to his home country of Chalion after 19 months as a galley slave for the warring nation of Roknari, an “error” that occurred when his name was conveniently left off the ransom list for the fort he was commanded to protect. After reading The Left Hand of Darkness which has no women for exchanging in marriage agreements and the like, it was striking to read a novel where the exchange of one princess, the Royesse Iselle, is the primary drive of the plot, though part of the argument of the novel seems to be that these exchanges do not happen the way we expect them to. Both novels take place in the fictional kingdom of Chalion and its neighboring countries, based loosely on the 15th century Iberian Peninsula. ![]() Lois McMaster’s Bujold’s 2001 novel The Curse of Chalion was nominated for the 2002 Hugo, and its sequel, Paladin of Souls, won the Hugo in 2004. ![]()
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