Graceling

A beautiful hardback edition to mark the tenth anniversary of this superb, critically acclaimed and best-selling debut fantasy novel.

In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing.

She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punishing and torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms and cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable, Katsa forms an underground Council whose purpose is to combat the destructive behaviour of the seven kings - after all, the Middluns is only one of the Seven Kingdoms, each of them ruled by their own king and his personal agenda for power.

When the Council hears that the King of Liend's father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates ... and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap him, and why? And who was the extraordinary Graced fighter who challenged her fighting skills, for the first time, as she and the Council rushed the old man to saftey?

Something dark and deadly is rising in the north and creeping across the continent, and behind it all lurks the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king ...

O frumoasa editie cartonata pentru a marca cea de-a zecea aniversare a acestui roman fantastic de debut superb, aclamat de critici si cel mai bine vandut. Intr-o lume in care oamenii nascuti cu o abilitate exceptionala, cunoscuta sub numele de Grace, sunt temute si exploatate, Katsa poarta povara unui abilitate chiar si ea dispretuieste: Harul uciderii. Traieste sub comanda unchiului ei Randa, regele Middluns-ului, si este de asteptat sa-si indeplineasca munca murdara, pedepsind si torturand pe oricine ii nemultumeste.