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Sonea fortsætter eftersøgningen af Tyvejægeren, hjulpet af Cery og en anden bandeleder, Skellin, en eksotisk udseende udlændig der hurtigt har arbejdet sig op i underverdens hierarki, og som ingen ved hvor stammer fra. I Sarkana er Lorkin stødt på et hemmeligt samfund, styret af kvinder. De kalder sig Forræderiets Døtre og behersker magtfuld magi som er ukendt for troldmandslavet. Lorkin siger ja til at følge med til deres skjulte by, på trods af muligheden for at han kan blive tvunget til at tilbringe resten af sit liv der …
Author
Trudi Canavan was born in Kew, Melbourne, and grew up in Ferntree Gully, a suburb at the foothills of the Dandenongs. In 1999 she won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story with “Whispers of the Mist Children”. In the same year she was granted a writers residency at Varuna Writers’ Centre in Katoomba, New South Wales. In November 2001, The Magicians’ Guild was first published in Australia. The second book of the trilogy, The Novice, was published in June 2002 and was nominated for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. The third book The High Lord was released in January 2003 and was nominated for the Best Novel Ditmar category. All three books entered Australian top ten SF bestseller lists. The Black Magician Trilogy reached the international market in 2004, published by HarperCollins’ EOS imprint in North America and Orbit Books in the UK. The trilogy is now rated by Nielsen BookScan as the most successful debut fantasy series of the last 10 years. Trudi’s second trilogy, Age of the Five, has also enjoyed bestselling success. Priestess of the White reached No.3 in the Sunday Times hardback fiction bestseller list, staying in the top ten for six weeks. In early 2006 Trudi signed a seven-figure contract with Orbit to write the prequel and sequel to the Black Magician Trilogy. The prequel, The Magician’s Apprentice was released in 2009 and won the Best Fantasy Novel category of the Aurealis Awards.
