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The Claw of the Conciliator

Urth: Book of the New Sun, Book 2

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The Claw of the Conciliator

By: Gene Wolfe
Narrated by: James Lailey
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The torturer Severian continues his journey of exile to the city Thrax, carrying with him the ancient executioner's sword and the Claw of the Conciliator, a gem of extraterrestrial power and beauty which no one man is meant to possess....

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, 1981

Short-listed for the World Fantasy Award, 1982

©2021 Gene Wolfe (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group Dark Fantasy Epic Fantasy Genre Fiction Hard Science Fiction Literary Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

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this reads like some surreal fever dream. I am intrigued enough to continue but I know I'm missing most of the infferances and allusions. as ephemeral as smoke.

surreal in the extreme.

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The brilliant narration makes it easier fot 1st time readers/listener's to get your head around some of the archaic words used.

loved the scene in the mines.

I've never paused an audiobook so often at the end of a chapter to see what other readers online have to say.

The symbolism used and the way it's written is outstanding. I'll be pondering this for a while I'd magine.

Loved It.

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this may be ridiculed but this series is comparable to Shakespeare and to have it read by an accomplished shakespeian actor makes it come alive in all its dark twisted glory

Brilliantly read.

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I enjoyed it overall but lost concentration a number of times and did not enjoy the play.

baffling

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