Patrick Rothfuss's 2007 debut fantasy novel, the first volume of The Kingkiller Chronicle, following the legendary magician Kvothe as he narrates his own life story at an inn.
Elevated literary prose and unreliable first-person narration to the center of epic fantasy, with a frame narrative that foregrounds the gap between legend and lived experience.
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