Cień kata - Gene Wolfe • BookLikes (ISBN:9788325001087)

Cień kata

by: Gene Wolfe (author)

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Severian przygotowywał się do fachu kata, lecz zakochał się w uwięzionej kobiecie i złamał dla niej obowiązujące katów zasady. Został za to wygnany z konfraterni i wysłany do odległej prowincji. Zabrał tylko katowski miecz, maskę i czarny płaszcz przynależny znienawidzonej profesji. Droga, którą ma pokonać, okazuje się trudniejsza i bardziej zawikłana, niż sobie wyobrażał. Młody czeladnik błądzi jak w labiryncie w ponurym, pełnym okrucieństwa świecie, ale nieuchronnie zmierza ku przeznaczeniu.

źródło opisu: [Wydawnictwo Książnica, 2007]

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Format: papier

ISBN: 9788325001087

Publish date: 2007 (data przybliżona)

Publisher: Książnica

Pages no: 326

Edition language: Polski

Category:

Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic

Series: The Book of the New Sun -2 (#1)

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Very dark chocolate. Blatantly part one of a quadrilogy (my copy is the SF Masterworks imprint which bundles ‘Shadow’ with ‘The Claw Of The Conciliator’) what we have here is low on action, high on characterisation, a through-the-roof central idea and much subtlety, particularly of prose. Probably a...

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It took me a long time to read such a short book due to my work schedule. I often only managed to read for a few minutes at a time because I kept having to drop what I was doing at a moment’s notice. Today was supposed to be a day off (my first after 14 days), and I ended up working for most of it...

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I'm abandoning this audiobook. I've read it before in print and although the narrator isn't bad, I'm bored by it. The print version was actually interesting. The audio one just doesn't work for me.

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CDRBill rated it

8 years ago

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I really liked the ancient archaic feel of this book even though it is set in the far distant future. I can't wait to read the rest of the tetralogy.

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http://lyrrael.booklikes.com Dispatches from Terabithia 3.0 The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)

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The tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim -- and follows his subsequent journey out of his home city of Nessus. So this week may not have been the appropria...

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