The Path of Anger ( Bk.I of The Book and the Sword )
( French - La voie de la colère - 2013 )
novel by Antoine Rouaud
translated by Tom Clegg
Published: Gollancz - hardback - 2013
ISBN: 0575130806 / 9780575130807
Gollancz - trade paperback - 2013
ISSBN: 0575130814 / 9780575130814
Gollancz - e-book - 2013
eISBN: 0575130830 / 9780575130838
( Amazon ) - Kindle - 2013
ASIN: B00DI7HJY2
Gollancz - papaerback - 2014
9780575130822 /9780575130821
Gollancz - audio - 2014
ASIN: B00NB5FP38
synopsis
Year 10 of the new Republic, in the remote port city of Masalia. Dun-Cadal, once the greatest general of the Empire, has been drinking his life away for years. Betrayed by his friends and grief-stricken at the loss of his apprentice, he’s done with politics, with adventure, and with people. But people aren’t finished with him – not yet.
Viola is a young historian looking for the last Emperor’s sword, said to have been taken by Dun-Cadal during the Empire’s final, chaotic hours. Her search not only leads her to the former general, but embroils them both in a series of assassinations. Dun-Cadal’s turncoat friends are being murdered, one by one, in the unmistakable style of an Imperial assassin...
But as Dun-Cadal comes to realize, none of these developments – not even the surprise of meeting his supposedly deceased apprentice – has been the result of chance. An intrigue transcending the fates of the individual characters has been put into motion, and its secrets are revealed one by one as the story unfolds.
awards
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( French - La voie de la colère - 2013 )
novel by Antoine Rouaud
translated by Tom Clegg
Published: Gollancz - hardback - 2013
ISBN: 0575130806 / 9780575130807
Gollancz - trade paperback - 2013
ISSBN: 0575130814 / 9780575130814
Gollancz - e-book - 2013
eISBN: 0575130830 / 9780575130838
( Amazon ) - Kindle - 2013
ASIN: B00DI7HJY2
Gollancz - papaerback - 2014
9780575130822 /9780575130821
Gollancz - audio - 2014
ASIN: B00NB5FP38
synopsis
Year 10 of the new Republic, in the remote port city of Masalia. Dun-Cadal, once the greatest general of the Empire, has been drinking his life away for years. Betrayed by his friends and grief-stricken at the loss of his apprentice, he’s done with politics, with adventure, and with people. But people aren’t finished with him – not yet.
Viola is a young historian looking for the last Emperor’s sword, said to have been taken by Dun-Cadal during the Empire’s final, chaotic hours. Her search not only leads her to the former general, but embroils them both in a series of assassinations. Dun-Cadal’s turncoat friends are being murdered, one by one, in the unmistakable style of an Imperial assassin...
But as Dun-Cadal comes to realize, none of these developments – not even the surprise of meeting his supposedly deceased apprentice – has been the result of chance. An intrigue transcending the fates of the individual characters has been put into motion, and its secrets are revealed one by one as the story unfolds.
awards
….