The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, Vol. 1)

The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, Vol. 1) image
ISBN-10:

0671463985

ISBN-13:

9780671463984

Author(s): Gene Wolfe
Edition: 4th
Released: Oct 03, 1982
Publisher: Pocket
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 262 pages
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Description:

Severian is a torturer, born to the guild and with an exceptionally promising career ahead of him . . . until he falls in love with one of his victims, a beautiful young noblewoman. Her excruciations are delayed for some months and, out of love, Severian helps her commit suicide and escape her fate. For a torturer, there is no more unforgivable act. In punishment he is exiled from the guild and his home city to the distant metropolis of Thrax with little more than Terminus Est, a fabled sword, to his name. Along the way he has to learn to survive in a wider world without the guild - a world in which he has already made both allies and enemies. And a strange gem is about to fall into his possession, which will only make his enemies pursue him with ever-more determination . . .












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