Michael Berry of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that The Name of the Wind is 'No ordinary fantasy full of pointless quests and overblown drama. Tolkien, stating that 'he’s an old-fashioned storyteller working with traditional elements, but his voice is his own.' Ursula LeGuin expressed that “It is a rare and great pleasure to come on somebody writing the way (Patrick Rothfuss does), not only with the kind of accuracy of language that seems to me absolutely essential to fantasy-making, but with real music in the words as well.

The London Times compares the writing style of Rothfuss to that of other great authors of the fantasy genre, like Ursula LeGuin, George R. It received much critical acclaim from critics and fellow authors. The book debuted at number eleven in the New York Times Best Seller list. At the conclusion, Kvothe uses the name of the wind against his nemesis, Ambrose Jakis while in the frame story he is accosted by a skin dancer who kills one of his patrons before being bludgeoned to death by another. However, he is also very poor, which causes many problems for him as tuition at the university is very expensive. He does very well at the University and is a very talented student. It encompasses approximately five years of his early life. The remainder of the novel chronicles his time here when not alternating to the present day in interludes. Kvothe then sells his meager possessions, gaining just enough to travel to the institution where he makes admissions on a scholarship. Shortly after this introduction, his troupe is slaughtered by the folkloric group known as The Chandrian, leading to his childhood as an orphan on the streets of Tarbean.Īpproximately three years later, Kvothe meets the storyteller Skarpi whose tales spur him to attempt to enter the University, a dream he'd toyed with as a child. The first day of the narrative begins when Kvothe is eleven years old, being raised by his parents who lead a troupe of Edema Ruh entertainers. The frame story occurs several years after the beginning of the narration, which addresses the man's lifetime as an adventurer and student of The University, being written by the Chronicler over a period of three days. It is owned by a man named Kote, soon revealed to be an alias of the legendary figure Kvothe. The Name of the Wind begins in the frame story, the setting of which is The Waystone Inn located in Newarre.

From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard.

This is the riveting first-person narrative of Kvothe, a young man who grows to be one of the most notorious magicians his world has ever seen.

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