Passage
core novel 2008 The Sharing Knife
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.97 (8,274 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780061375330 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Newlyweds Fawn and Dag embark on a honeymoon journey south toward the Southern Sea by flatboat, hoping for a period of relative peace after the difficult reception Fawn received among Dag's own people in the previous book. Their travels are complicated when Dag's healing abilities, extraordinary even by Lakewalker standards, begin drawing unwanted attention from farmers and Lakewalkers alike, forcing him to reveal guarded secrets about Lakewalker magic that his people normally keep hidden from outsiders. As word of Dag's gifts spreads along the river, the couple is drawn into a dangerous confrontation with a renegade posing a threat that neither farmers nor Lakewalkers can safely ignore, testing how far Dag is willing to go against his own people's customs to do what he believes is right.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Sharing Knife
- Series: The Sharing Knife core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Notes
- From the series record (The Sharing Knife): The four-book main sequence, published as a continuous quartet 2006-2009.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Sharing Knife: position 3 of 4: previous Legacy (2007) · next Horizon (2009)
- Internal chronology, within The Sharing Knife: position 3 of 5: previous Legacy (2007) · next Horizon (2009)
Sources
← The Sharing Knife dossier · All universes
Part of the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.