The Hand of Oberon (Amber Chronicles, #4)
by:
Roger Zelazny (author)
"King Oberon has vanished and Shadow menaces the perfect realm of Amber. Family blood has been spilled on the magic pattern that created Amber. To save themselves from the dagger-wielding hand that stabs across the nebulous boundaries of the parallel worlds, the remaining Princes - led by the...
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"King Oberon has vanished and Shadow menaces the perfect realm of Amber. Family blood has been spilled on the magic pattern that created Amber. To save themselves from the dagger-wielding hand that stabs across the nebulous boundaries of the parallel worlds, the remaining Princes - led by the superhuman Lord Corwin - must find the murderous traitor in their midst... and discover the source of the black road that unites the one true world of Amber with the multidimensional realm of Shadow."
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780380513185 (0380513188)
ASIN: 380513188
Publish date: June 1977
Publisher: The Hearst Corporation
Pages no: 188
Edition language: English
Series: The Chronicles of Amber -10 omnibus (#4)
Great continuation to the story of Amber with a surprise ending.
Au risque de me répéter, encore meilleur que le précédent, les personnages deviennent encore plus intéressants, les retournements de situation sont légion et bien maitrisés (même si certains restent prévisibles), un bonheur à lire, j'espère que la saga continue à monter en qualité dans les suivants ...
Where to begin?All shadows flow from Amber. This we have known since the first book, [b:Nine Princes in Amber|92121|Nine Princes in Amber (Amber Chronicles, #1)|Roger Zelazny|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1368213697s/92121.jpg|1383240]. The Pattern, the great seal of magic, is the rite...
Intrigue becomes labyrinthine in this volume. At one point, the narrator acknowledges that we've had by now "layers and layers of explanation" (149). Agreed. It's cool, though, that he likewise understands "the city of facts I was slowly erecting on the grave of my other self," and that "each wav...
Zelazny does a great job with walking between the worlds and with humor. The plot confused all hell out of me though.