En un futuro que evoca un remoto pasado, el joven Severian estudia en la Ciudadela, donde los torturadores siguen las órdenes del Autarca. Su vida da un giro cuando conoce a Thecla, una mujer que, tras perder su puesto de concubina, lo lleva a desobedecer las reglas. En lugar de ser ejecutado, es enviado a trabajar como verdugo en Thrax, la Ciudad de los Cuartos sin Ventanas. Antes de partir, su maestro Palaemon le entrega la antigua espada Terminus Est. En su camino, Severian se encuentra con los gemelos Agia y Agiltis, que lo impulsan a luchar en el Campo Sanguinario, así como con la troupe teatral del doctor Talos, el monstruoso Calveros, la encantadora Jolenta y la enigmática Dorcas, que aparece en la costa del Lago de los Pájaros. Además, Severian se convierte en portador de la Garra del Conciliador, una joya con poderes que podrían llevarlo al trono de la Casa Absoluta. Sin embargo, su viaje lo llevará primero hacia el norte, hasta las puertas de la Ciudad Imperecedera. Este relato es una exploración mágica y original de un mundo nuevo, donde la narrativa de Gene Wolfe se presenta como una obra maestra incomparable.
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Esta saga épica transporta a los lectores a una Tierra del futuro lejano donde el sol se está muriendo y la humanidad lucha por sobrevivir entre las ruinas de una civilización que alguna vez fue grandiosa. La narrativa sigue el viaje de un joven exiliado de su gremio de torturadores, que se embarca en una aventura para encontrar un poderoso artefacto. Su camino está plagado de peligros, misterios y profundas reflexiones filosóficas sobre la memoria, la identidad y la redención. Se erige como una obra maestra de la ciencia fantástica, expandiendo los límites del género.






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Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic of the Master of Power, a legendary figure of mythic proportions. Armed with his sword, Terminus Est, and the Claw, Severian continues his journey to Thrax, the city of his exile. Bizarre apes, strange cannibalistic rituals, and the foreigner named Jonas all lie in his future.
Nella valle ai piedi del Castello di Acies, sorge l’imponente e opulenta Thrax, la Città dalle Stanze Senza Finestre. È qui che Severian il Torturatore sconta l’esilio, prestando i suoi servigi come Littore presso il Vincula, l’antica necropoli trasformata in prigione. Con sé ha la fida spada Terminus Est e l’Artiglio, un gioiello dai poteri insondabili lasciatogli in eredità dal Conciliatore. Eppure qualcosa in lui è cambiato, il Torturatore che sentiva di essere vacilla. La fuga sulle montagne, in compagnia di un prigioniero da lui liberato e di un giovane che incontra lungo il suo cammino, sarà l’occasione per rileggere il proprio passato alla luce di nuove peregrinazioni e di sfide ancor più ardue, che lo metteranno ancora una volta faccia a faccia col suo destino.
Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not refuse. This is the fourth and last volume in the series.
The long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe’s four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. We return to the world of Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, as he leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to face his greatest test, to become the legendary New Sun or die. The strange, rich, original spaceship scenes give way to travels in time, wherein Severian revisits times and places which fill in parts of the background of the four-volume work, that will thrill and intrigue particularly all readers of the earlier books. But The Urth of the New Sun is an independent structure all of a piece, an integral masterpiece to shelve beside the classics, one itself.
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Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the second two volumes of this four volume novel, The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch.
The Shadow of the Torturer 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.The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny.The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume.
