The Wizard of the Pigeons

by Megan Lindholm, Robin Hobb

Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1987

About the author

The author also writes under the pseudonym Robin Hobb. Her real name is Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden.

Reviews

[Alexander Theofanidis · Rating 4 out of 5]

In contrast to the all-too-common narrative convention whereby the author chews, swallows, digests, and ultimately regurgitates the intended conclusions directly into the reader’s mouth, Megan Lindholm (whom you may also know as Robin Hobb, author of the masterful fantasy series The Farseer Trilogy) here affords the necessary space for one to arrive at their own understanding.

Is Seattle truly magical? Or is the city’s magic merely a projection of a disturbed Vietnam veteran’s fractured psyche? Is this a tale about the search for life’s meaning? For love? A descent into the dissolution of reality through the lens of post-traumatic stress? Are the ‘rules’ that bind the ‘magician’ actual magical laws within a fantasy framework, or are they self-imposed limitations, devised in an effort to restrict—but not extinguish—his contact with other human beings?

There is no definitive answer—only the experience of reading.

[Annelies · Rating 4 out of 5]

A faerie tale it is not. It is magic realism with the accent on realism