The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, 2007
A gifted, stubborn boy tells how he became a legend — and what his music, magic and mistakes cost him.
Patrick Rothfuss
Kvothe's story is told in his own voice, with the patience of someone sitting across a table and getting the whole account off his chest: the music, the study, the mistakes, the long aftermath. «The Name of the Wind» and «The Wise Man's Fear» share that unhurried, first-person pull, and both keep a quiet tension between the boy telling the tale and the man he has become. Start with «The Name of the Wind», the first day of the telling, and go on to «The Wise Man's Fear» when you want the second.
Feels like wonder, solitude and melancholy.
Start with The Name of the Wind.
The Name of the Wind was Rothfuss’s debut novel and won the 2007 Quill Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy.
The voice of a man who knows his name is already a story.
I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.You may have heard of me. Books by Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, 2011
The second day of Kvothe's story: he leaves the University for courts, forests, and faerie, while the quiet innkeeper he became keeps his own counsel.
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