The Wise Man's Fear

Zusatztext The great new fantasy writer we've been waiting for, and this is an astonishing book Informationen zum Autor Patrick Rothfuss is the bestselling author of The Kingkiller Chronicle. His first novel, The Name of the Wind , won the Quill Award and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Its sequel, The Wise Man's Fear , debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller chart and won the David Gemmell Legend Award. His novels have appeared on NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Books list and Locus ' Best 21st Century Fantasy Novels list. Pat lives in Wisconsin, where he brews mead, builds box forts with his children, and runs Worldbuilders, a book-centered charity that has raised more than six million dollars for Heifer International. He can be found at patrickrothfuss.com and on Twitter at @patrickrothfuss. Klappentext The Kingkiller Chronicles: Day Two ' I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women and written songs that make the minstrels weep. My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me.' The man was lost. The myth remained. Kvothe - the dragon-slayer, the renowned swordsman, the most feared, fames and notorious wizard the world has ever seen - vanished without warning and without trace. And even now, when he has been found, when darkness is rising in the corners of the world, he will not return. But his story lives on and, for the first time, Kvothe is going to tell it . . . Praise for Patrick Rothfuss: 'The fantasy world has a new star' Publishers Weekly, starred review 'I haven't been so gripped by a new fantasy series in years. It's certain to become a classic' The Times ' The Name of the Wind has everything . . . it's humorous and terrifying and completely believable' Tad Williams www.patrickrothfuss.com 978 0 575 08143 7 £8.99 The phenomenal SUNDAY TIMES-bestselling sequel to THE NAME OF THE WIND. 'Hail Patrick Rothfuss! A new giant is striding the land' Robert J Sawyer Zusammenfassung The phenomenal SUNDAY TIMES-bestselling sequel to THE NAME OF THE WIND. 'Hail Patrick Rothfuss! A new giant is striding the land' Robert J Sawyer...

The great new fantasy writer we've been waiting for, and this is an astonishing book

Préface

The phenomenal SUNDAY TIMES-bestselling sequel to THE NAME OF THE WIND.
'Hail Patrick Rothfuss! A new giant is striding the land' Robert J Sawyer

Auteur
Patrick Rothfuss is the bestselling author of The Kingkiller Chronicle. His first novel, The Name of the Wind, won the Quill Award and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Its sequel, The Wise Man's Fear, debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller chart and won the David Gemmell Legend Award. His novels have appeared on NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Books list and Locus' Best 21st Century Fantasy Novels list. Pat lives in Wisconsin, where he brews mead, builds box forts with his children, and runs Worldbuilders, a book-centered charity that has raised more than six million dollars for Heifer International. He can be found at patrickrothfuss.com and on Twitter at @patrickrothfuss.

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The Kingkiller Chronicles: Day Two

'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me.'

The man was lost. The myth remained. Kvothe - the dragon-slayer, the renowned swordsman, the most feared, fames and notorious wizard the world has ever seen - vanished without warning and without trace. And even now, when he has been found, when darkness is rising in the corners of the world, he will not return.

But his story lives on and, for the first time, Kvothe is going to tell it . . .

Praise for Patrick Rothfuss:

'The fantasy world has a new star' Publishers Weekly, starred review

'I haven't been so gripped by a new fantasy series in years. It's certain to become a classic' The Times

'The Name of the Wind has everything . . . it's humorous and terrifying and completely believable' Tad Williams

www.patrickrothfuss.com

978 0 575 08143 7
£8.99

Résumé
The phenomenal SUNDAY TIMES-bestselling sequel to THE NAME OF THE WIND. 'Hail Patrick Rothfuss! A new giant is striding the land' Robert J Sawyer