The Name Of The Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One
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Pages: Good
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In a world where legends are made and unmade by the men who live them, The Name of the Wind chronicles the life of Kvothe — a figure spoken of in hushed, fearful reverence — as he recounts his own extraordinary story from behind the anonymity of a rural innkeeper's apron. Patrick Rothfuss constructs an intricate, layered narrative set across a richly imagined world of arcane universities, ruthless street gangs, and ancient, nameless terrors, following a young prodigy from orphaned poverty to the hallowed — and dangerous — halls of the University, where he masters the art of sympathy, a rigorous form of magic rooted in the laws of the physical world. Rothfuss writes with a lyrical precision that rewards careful reading, weaving together questions of fate, identity, and the seductive, treacherous power of stories themselves. The Name of the Wind argues that the myths we build around great men are as revealing as the truths they obscure — and the gap between Kvothe's legend and his quiet, diminished present is the novel's most haunting mystery. Winner of the Quill Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror on its debut, this is a work of staggering world-building ambition that leaves the reader hungry to know what catastrophe could possibly have brought a living legend to his knees.
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Format: Paperback
Published: 2011, Gollancz (50th Anniversary Edition)
Genre: Fantasy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a world where legends are made and unmade by the men who live them, The Name of the Wind chronicles the life of Kvothe — a figure spoken of in hushed, fearful reverence — as he recounts his own extraordinary story from behind the anonymity of a rural innkeeper's apron. Patrick Rothfuss constructs an intricate, layered narrative set across a richly imagined world of arcane universities, ruthless street gangs, and ancient, nameless terrors, following a young prodigy from orphaned poverty to the hallowed — and dangerous — halls of the University, where he masters the art of sympathy, a rigorous form of magic rooted in the laws of the physical world. Rothfuss writes with a lyrical precision that rewards careful reading, weaving together questions of fate, identity, and the seductive, treacherous power of stories themselves. The Name of the Wind argues that the myths we build around great men are as revealing as the truths they obscure — and the gap between Kvothe's legend and his quiet, diminished present is the novel's most haunting mystery. Winner of the Quill Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror on its debut, this is a work of staggering world-building ambition that leaves the reader hungry to know what catastrophe could possibly have brought a living legend to his knees.