The Magician King - Tapa dura

"Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom-not to be missed."
-"Kirkus Reviews" (Starred Review)

"Fans of "The Magicians" will find this sequel a feast and will be delighted that a jaw-dropping denouement surely promises a third volume to come."
-"Booklist"

"[A] serious, heartfelt novel [that] turns the machinery of fantasy inside out."
-"The New York Times" (Editor's Choice)
"A spellbinding stereograph, a literary adventure novel that is also about a privilege, power and the limits of being human. "The Magician King" is a triumphant sequel."
-NPR.org
"["The Magician King"] is 'The Catcher in the Rye' for devotees of alternative universes. It's dazzling and devil-may-care...Grossman has created a rare, strange and scintillating novel."
-"The Chicago Tribune"
""The Magician King" is a rare achievement, a book that simultaneously criticizes and celebrates our deep desire for fantasy."
-"The Boston Globe" "Grossman has devised an enchanted milieu brimming with possibility, and his sly authorial voice gives it a literary lift that positions "The Magician King" well above the standard fantasy fare."
-"The San Francisco Chronicle"
"Grossman expands his magical world into a boundless e

Return to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows of the mundane world only to face terrifying new challenges. Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, a peaceable kingdom. But Quentin is restless. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia set out on a magical sailing ship in search of adventure. Instead their journey takes them to the last place Quentin wants to be: his parents' house. Bestseller