Esta épica serie sigue al último pistolero, Roland Deschain, en su búsqueda de la Torre Oscura, que sirve como clave para muchas realidades. La historia combina elementos de fantasía, horror y western, explorando temas como el destino, el amor y el sacrificio.
Conclusión de la odisea de Roland y sus compañeros en defensa de la Torre Oscura, ahora que ya ha nacido Mordred, cuya única obsesión es destruir a Roland y malograr su misión redentora de preservar la Torre que sustenta nuestro mundo. Sólo quedan tres personajes para culminar el objetivo. Cuando Roland acceda a la torre envuelta en rosales, ascenderá a través de sus propios recuerdos: los peligros siguen acechándolo, pero él ya está en posesión de las respuestas adecuadas.
In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest, The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland's relentlessly cunning old enemy, and the temptation of the wizard's diabolical glass ball, a powerful force in Roland's first love affair. A tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado. And the Tower is closer...
Roland Deschain y su Ka-tet viajan hacia el sudoeste a traves de los bosques del mundo medio. El camino les lleva a el y sus compañeros hasta el Calla Bryn Sturgis, una tranquila comunidad de granjeros y rancheros en las fronteras del mundo medio. Más allá de este pueblo se encuentra Tronido, de donde procede la más terrible de las amenazas, los lobos. En el Calla, los viajeros se encuentran con el padre Callahan, otro refugiado de nuestro mundo. Él también es uno de los protectores de la Torre Oscura, en particular de un solar de la Segunda Avenida de Manhattan donde crece una sola rosa roja. Los lobos de Tronido se están acercando y por primera vez los habitantes del Calla Bryn Sturgis, entrenados por el coraje de Roland y su Ka-tet, van a luchar. Los lectores de esta serie épica de Stephen king conocen bien a Roland, o por lo menos tan bien como este héroe enigmático se deja conocer. También reconocerán los compañeros de viaje que le acompañan en la búsqueda de la Torre Oscura: Eddie Dean y su mujer Susannah; Jake Chambers, el joven que ha traspasado la puerta de la muerte dos veces para entrar en el mundo de Roland, y Ancho el bilibramo. Esta quinta y muy esperada novela colmara sin duda todas las esperanzas de sus seguidores.
This a pivotal instalment in the epic saga provides the key to the quest that defines Roland's life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But who is the father of her child? And what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah's date with destiny, while he himself uses 'the persistence of magic' to get to Maine in the Summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'SALEM'S LOT. SONG OF SUSANNAH is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues THE DARK TOWER series seamlessly from WOLVES OF THE CALLA and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest's conclusion.
It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka-tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.This Russian Doll of a novel, visits Mid-World's last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a 'skin man,' Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind through the Keyhole.' 'A person's never too old for stories,' he says to Bill. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' And stories like these, they live for us.
