The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle 1)

Atypical, profound and sincere, The Name of the Wind is a novel of adventures, of stories within other stories, of mystery, of friendship, of love, of magic and of overcoming.

Musician, thief, magician, assassin, and hero: this is the legend of Kvothe. His true story will only begin to unfold in The Name of the Wind.

"I traveled, I loved, I lost, I trusted, and I was betrayed."

In an inn in the middle of nowhere, a man prepares to recount, for the first time, the true story of his life. A story known only to him, one that has been obscured by rumors, conjecture, and tavern tales that have transformed him into a legendary figure, a man everyone believed to be dead: Kvothe... musician, beggar, thief, student, magician, hero, and assassin. Now he will reveal the truth about himself. And to do so, he must begin at the beginning: his childhood in a troupe of traveling performers, the years he eked out a living as a petty thief on the streets of a great city, and his arrival at a university where he hoped to find all the answers he had been searching for.