"It is a rare and great pleasure to find a fantasist writing... with true music in the words....  Wherever Pat Rothfuss goes... he'll carry us with him as a good singer carries us through a song."
MY NAME IS KVOTHE

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.

So begins a tale unequaled in fantasy literature - the story of a hero told in his own voice.  It is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.

"THE NAME OF THE WIND is one of the best stories told in any medium in a decade.  [Patrick Rothfuss'] debut novel combines the intricate stories-within-stories structure of The Arabian Nights with the academic setting of the Harry Potter series, and transforms it all into a brooding, thoroughly adult meditation on how heroism went wrong....  Shelve THE NAME OF THE WIND beside The Lord of the Rings... and look forward to the day when it's mentioned in the same breath, perhaps as first among equals."  - The Onion A.V. Club

"Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous."  - Terry Brooks, 22-time New York Times bestselling author

"The Wise Man's Fear is a beautiful book to read.  Masterful prose, a sense of cohesion to the storytelling, a wonderful sense of pacing....  There is a beauty to Pat's writing that defies description." - Brandon Sanderson

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."

My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me.

So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view - a story unequaled in fantasy literature.  Now in The Wise Man's Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.

"The best epic fantasy I read last year....  He's bloody good, this Rothfuss guy."  -George R. R. Martin

"As seamless and lyrical as a song... this breathtakingly epic story is heartrending in its intimacy and masterful in its narrative essence." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Reminiscent in scope of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and similar in feel to the narrative tour de force of The Arabian Nights, this masterpiece of storytelling will appeal to lovers of fantasy on a grand scale." - Library Journal (starred review)