The Book Of The New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow And Claw Wells and Louis Armstrong takes a

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The Book Of The New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow And Claw Wells and Louis Armstrong takes aThe first two volumes of Gene Wolfe's magnificent, award winning The Book of the New Sun. An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make