Book description
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: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the fifth
volume in the series.
The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance.
In King's Landing the Queen Regent, Cersei Lannister, awaits trial,
abandoned by all those she trusted; while in the eastern city of Yunkai
her brother Tyrion has been sold as a slave. From the Wall, having left
his wife and the Red Priestess Melisandre under the protection of Jon
Snow, Stannis Baratheon marches south to confront the Boltons at
Winterfell. But beyond the Wall 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'
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'
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.
