Frederick Kirchhoff

The Clavis (The Emperor's Library: Book Four) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

After the events of The Game, Jon and Sem traveled to Drom and brought back inventions that made Tarnak a wealthy city. Sem is dead, but, thanks to the tritargons, both Jon and Klei remain alive, although very old. Jon has become a recluse, refusing to see even his own servants, while Klei now lives with the descendants of the Rand at the Forest House.

The Clavis is the story of Rel, a handsome, unrelentingly polite young man from a small town east of Tarnak. It begins with his arrival to work for his uncle in the city, where Billy, a gay co-worker, shows him the town and takes him to a remarkable restaurant.

Sent on a sales journey to the Southlands, Rel encounters Klei, who gives him a letter to deliver to Jon, and this letter transforms his life. Jon insists upon seeing the messenger and, after a long conversation in which he explains the history of life on the planet, impulsively gives him a mysterious object (the clavis) to hide in his family's orchard.Thus commences a chain of events that bring a violent end to most of Rel's family and lead Rel himself into slavery. Eventually, Rel, Billy and Rel's sister Kara, along with his brother Max, the Empress Ktoressa, and an assortment of other characters, find themselves at the ruined city of Kar. Here, where the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, the final, breathtaking, events of the novel unfold.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Frederick Kirchhoff
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781476000220
• Artikelnr.: 48352959

Autorenporträt

A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Fred Kirchhoff graduated from Harvard and for many years taught English at a state university in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was responsible for course in British Romantic and Victorian literature. While in Indiana, he also wrote two books on William Morris and a book on John Ruskin, as well as articles on other literary subjects. He later moved to Minneapolis, where he served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Metropolitan State University. Since retiring, he has lived in Portland, Oregon. He began writing the Emperor's Library series while living in Minnesota, but completed it in Oregon, where his chief pleasures have been writing, classical piano lessons, and cooking up dinners for his favorite man and a few cherished friends.