num_pages: 262
description: Severian is a torturer, born to the guild and with an exceptionally promising career ahead of him . . . until he falls in love with one of his victims, a beautiful young noblewoman. Her excruciations are delayed for some months and, out of love, Severian helps her commit suicide and escape her fate. For a torturer, there is no more unforgivable act. In punishment he is exiled from the guild and his home city to the distant metropolis of Thrax with little more than Terminus Est, a fabled sword, to his name. Along the way he has to learn to survive in a wider world without the guild - a world in which he has already made both allies and enemies. And a strange gem is about to fall into his possession, which will only make his enemies pursue him with ever-more determination . . .
language: English
title: The Shadow of the Torturer
titlecomplete: The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)
characters: Vodalus, Severian
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Audiobook
ratings_count: 27634
places: Urth
series: Solar Cycle, The Book of the New Sun
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Balrog Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Tähtifantasia Award, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award
publisher: Pocket Books