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Few books have captivated the imagination
and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere
as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high
fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers
the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a
kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of
peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course
of destruction.
A Feast for Crows
It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter
strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the
land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so
it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey,
Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s
demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his
siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on
barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately
sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands
too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war,
which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself
out.
But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not
long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion
eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead
and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in
the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet
of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are
formed, while surprising faces—some familiar, others
only just appearing—are seen emerging from an ominous
twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges
ahead.
It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful
and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the
magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before
them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and
sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake
their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows,
many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors.
George R.R. Martin sold
his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally
ever since. He has written fantasy, horror, and science fiction,
and for his sins spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer/producer,
working on Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast,
and various feature films and television pilots that were
never made. In the mid 90s he returned to prose, his first
love, and began work on his epic fantasy series A Song
of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever
since. Whenever he’s allowed to leave, he returns to Santa
Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with the lovely Parris, a big
white dog called Mischa, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula
who think they run the place.
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