![]() “Before harvest, when the bee hum spreads drowsy and heavy as honey, she tastes in their busy drone a tale of the stream over which they skim, the falls down which stream pours, the banks it winds past where reeds grow thick and the autumn bittern booms.” Spear, Advance review copy in Kindle edition, Location 30 Even in childhood, the natural world sings to her of its subtlest shifts and portents of change. She seems to be imbued with her own special powers. ![]() We see Peretur first as a young girl, so far without her true name, raised in the isolation of a cave by a mother determined to keep the child from her mysterious father. The others are the sword Arturus keeps at his side as the source of his power, the stone from which he took it and the great spear that becomes Peretur’s weapon. ![]() ![]() Spear gives us a vivid and completely original portrait of the figure known variously as Peretur, Parzifal, Parsifal or many related names, but here as a woman, and the search for the great cup that is one of four magic objects that belonged to ancient gods. ![]()
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