Book description
NUMBER 1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR & BOOK
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's
internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest
fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS is the fifth volume
in the series.
The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance.
In the east, Daenerys, last scion of House Targaryen, her dragons grown
to terrifying maturity, rules as queen of a city built on dust and
death, beset by enemies.
Now that her whereabouts are known many are seeking Daenerys and her
dragons. Among them the dwarf, Tyrion Lannister, who has escaped King's
Landing with a price on his head, wrongfully condemned to death for the
murder of his nephew, King Joffrey. But not before killing his hated
father, Lord Tywin.
To the north lies the great Wall of ice and stone - a structure only as
strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow has
been elected the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, but he has
enemies both in the Watch and beyond the Wall, where the wildling armies
are massing for an assault.
On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting, played out by a grand
cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and
slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance
of all… 'In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the
best … tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting'
Time Magazine
'An absorbing, exciting read … Martin's style is so vivid that you will
be hooked within a few pages' The Times
'The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy
writers away shaking their heads … Its ambition: to construct the Twelve
Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat
the Borgias'
Guardian
'Colossal, staggering … Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity
of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world … The
writing is always powerful …' SFX George R. R. Martin is the author of
fourteen novels, including five volumes of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE,
several collections of short stories and numerous screen plays for
television drama and feature films. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
