The Book of the New Sun Shadow and Claw

About this book

Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Gene Wolfes The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic set a million years in the future on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian the central character is a torturer exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims and journeying to the distant city of Thrax armed with his ancient executioners sword Terminus Est. This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator