About the author
Patrick Rothfuss is an American fantasy writer best known for the Kingkiller Chronicle. His work treats storytelling itself as part of the plot, keeping a deliberate distance between a celebrated legend and the person who remembers making it.
Rothfuss lets the adult narrator shape the boy's story without fully controlling it. Kvothe is brilliant, proud, observant, and capable of turning a bad decision into a worse one. The distance between the legend and the man telling it supplies as much tension as the Chandrian he is trying to find.
Where to start
Start with The Name of the Wind. An innkeeper once known as Kvothe begins telling the true story behind his dangerous legend.
