The Shadow of the Torturer (1980)

by Gene Wolfe

Synopsis

WorldCat: The Earth is old and the sun is dying. In the great Citadel of the City Imperishable, Severian - apprentice to the torturer's guild - betrays his oath. Exiled, he begins his phantasmagoric odyssey through the perilous world of the deep, distant future.

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