Description

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

My name is Kvothe.
You could have heard of me’

So begins the tale of Kvothe – currently referred to as Kote, the unassuming innkeepter – from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, through his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to go into a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages you’ll come to know Kvothe the notorious magician, the accomplished thief, the masterful musician, the dragon-slayer, the legend-hunter, the lover, the thief and the infamous assassin.

The Name of the Wind is fantasy at its easiest, and an astounding should-read title.

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

My name is Kvothe.
You could have heard of me’

So begins the tale of Kvothe – currently referred to as Kote, the unassuming innkeepter – from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, through his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to go into a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages you’ll come to know Kvothe the notorious magician, the accomplished thief, the masterful musician, the dragon-slayer, the legend-hunter, the lover, the thief and the infamous assassin.

The Name of the Wind is fantasy at its easiest, and an astounding should-read title.