Book description
It is said that Hood waits at the end of every plot, every scheme,
each grandiose ambition. But this time it is different: this time the
Lord of Death is there at the beginning...
Darujhistan swelters in the summer heat and seethes with portents,
rumours and whispers. Strangers have arrived, a murderer is abroad,
past-tyrannies are stirring and assassins seem to be targeting the
owners of K'rul's Bar. For the rotund, waistcoat-clad man knows such
events will be dwarfed by what is about to happen: for in the distance
can be heard the baying of hounds.
Far away, in Black Coral, the ruling Tiste Andii appear oblivious to
the threat posed by the fast-growing cult of the Redeemer - an
honourable, one-mortal man who seems powerless against the twisted
vision of his followers.
So Hood waits at the beginning of a conspiracy that will shake the
cosmos, but at its end there is another: Anomander Rake, Son of
Darkness, has come to right an ancient and terrible wrong...
Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson's debut fantasy
novel,
Gardens of the Moon
, was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and introduced fantasy
readers to his epic 'The Malazan Book of the Fallen' sequence, which has
been hailed 'a masterwork of the imagination'.
This River Awakens
was hist first novel, and originally published under the name Steve
Lundin. Having lived in Cornwall for a number of years, Steve will be
returning to Canada in late summer 2012. To find out more, visit
www.
malazanempire. com
and
www. stevenerikson. com
