Shadow and claw. Wolf J.

“The Book of the New Sun” by Gina Wolf is one of the most famous science fiction cycles of all time. This is a long magical novel in four parts. “Shadow and Claw” contains the first two: “The shadow of the executioner” and “The Claw of the Peacemaker”, which were awarded the World Fantasy Prize and the Nebel Prize.

Severian, the modest student of the executioner, blessed and cursed by the gift of photographic memory , tells about the path leading him through sex, betrayal, exile, murders, conspiracies and secrets - to growing up and the top of power over the ancient world of Urd, illuminated by the dying sun.