Summary
New novel in P.C. Hodgell's Kencyrath series, and sequel to Honor's Paradox . Kothifir the Great, ruled by an obscenely obese god-king, peopled withcolorful, dueling guilds, guarded by the Southern Host of the Kencyrath. Here,Jame arrives, only to find that the turbulent city claims more of her attentionas the Talisman than the Host's training fields do as a second year randoncadet. In order to save the present, Jame must search the past, be it fifteenyears ago when as a boy her brother Torisen arrived here, unknown and unwanted,or three thousand years ago when the Wastes were a great sea ringed with richcivilizations.
P.C. Hodgell earned her doctorate at the University of Minnesota with a dissertation on Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe , and is a graduate of both the Clarion and the Milford Writers Workshops. Recently retired, she was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in modern British literature and composition, and teaches an on-line course on science fiction and fantasy for the University of Minnesota. Hodgell lives in her family's ancestral nineteenth-century wood-framed house in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
