Book description
A major standalone space opera, this is Garth Nix's first novel for
older readers since the conclusion of the Old Kingdom trilogy… and it's
worth the wait.
A grand adventure that spans galaxies and lifetimes, A Confusion of
Princes is also a page-turning action adventure.
These are the three deaths of Prince Khemri. Told in his own words, we
follow him as he trains to become a Prince of the Empire, an enhanced
human being, equipped with biological and technological improvements
that make him faster, stronger and smarter than any ordinary person. Not
to mention the ultimate benefit: should he die, and be deemed worthy, he
will be reborn…
Which is just as well, because no sooner has Prince Khemri graduated to
full Princehood than he learns the terrible truth behind the Empire:
there are a million princes, and all of them want each other dead,
because there can only be one Emperor… Garth Nix was born in 1963 in
Melbourne, Australia, to the sound of the Salvation Army band outside
playing'Hail the Conquering Hero Comes' or possibly'Roll Out the
Barrel'. Garth left Melbourne at an early age for Canberra (the federal
capital) and stayed there till he was nineteen, when he left to drive
around the UK in a beat-up Austin with a boot full of books and a
Silver-Reed typewriter. He is now an award-winning author and one of the
most influential names in contemporary fantasy.
