The Tombs of Atuan is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the Winter 1970 issue of Worlds of Fantasy and published as a book by Atheneum in 1971. It was Le Guin's second novel set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea and the middle book in the so-called Earthsea Trilogy (1968 to 1972). Its events take place a few years after A Wizard of Earthsea and around two decades before The Farthest Shore.
The Tombs of Atuan was a Newbery Honor Book in 1972.
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