In the westernmost province of the Kingdom of the Isles,upon the world of Midkemia,an orphan kitchen boy named Pug was made apprentice to the magician Kulgan.
Here starts an adventure that will span lifetimes and worlds. Discover where the story begins.
The world had changed even before I discovered the foreign ship wrecked on the shore below Crydee Castle,but it was the harbinger of the chaos and death that was coming to our door.
War had come to the Kingdom of the Isles,and in the years that followed it would scatter my friends across the world. I longed to train as a warrior and fight alongside our duke like my foster-brother,but when the time came,I was not offered that choice. My fate would be shaped by other forces.
My name is Pug. I was once an orphaned kitchen boy,with no family and no prospects,but I am destined to become a master magician...
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780007466863Number of pages: 864Weight: 570 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 45 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'File under guilty pleasure'Guardian
'Totally gripping'WASHINGTON POST
'Epic scope...fast-moving action...vivid imagination'WASHINGTON POST
'Tons of intrigue and action'PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
'A fine yarn...vivid...suspenseful...and the action is non-stop'Booklist
Raymond E. Feist
One of the world's bestselling fantasy authors,Raymond Elias Feist describes himself as a'Southern Californian by birth and a San Diegan by choice'. A long-time role-playing game fan,Feist first created the landscape of his bestselling sequence'The Riftwar Cycle'when at university,as a role-playing alternative to Dungeons and Dragons. Feist then decided to expand the universe in fiction,beginning with his 1982 cult novel Magician. Over several series and generations Feist has continued develop the worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan,creating one of the most thoroughly realised fantasy landscapes of all-time. Feist's 2018 novel King of Ashes marks a departure from the Riftwar Cycle and is the first novel in the planned new trilogy,Firemane.
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