The long-awaited continuation of the cult novel “The Name of the Wind”! Young Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of a hero: he will save an influential lord from betrayal, defeat a group of dangerous bandits, and escape alive from the skilled seductress Felurian. But at every dizzying turn of his extraordinary fate, he will not forget about his true desire - to find and defeat the mythical Chandrians who brutally killed his family and left him an orphan... And he will also learn how difficult life can be when a person becomes a legend of his time. And while the humble innkeeper tells the story of his past, the future begins to happen right outside the hotel’s threshold.