276 pages
English language
Published 1980 by Timescape Books, distributed by Simon and Schuster.
Gene Wolfe: The shadow of the torturer (1980, Timescape Books, distributed by Simon and Schuster)
- OCLC Number:
- 17775937
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The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim -- and follows subsequent journey out of his home city of Nessus.
Subjects
- Fantasy fiction