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A fabulous brand new Eddings standalone fantasy, set in an entirely new magical world. A bronze-age burglar, armed robber and sometime murderer, our hero Althalus is commissioned to steal a book by a mysterious cloaked stranger named Ghend. Althalus sets off to the House at the End of the World to steal it - after stealing Ghend's cloak, as well, since winter is coming on. (Althalus is a rogue who can get away with almost anything...maybe with everything!) At the House at the End of the World, he finds a talking cat...in the same room as the book Ghend described. What he can't find once he's in the house is the door by which he entered. Only 2467 years and an ice age later does Althalus re-emerge with the cat, Emmy, in the hood of his (Ghend's) cloak. By now he can read. He's read the book and discovered a tool mightier than the blunt instrument he once used to disable his victims. The book was written by the god Deiwos, whose evil brother Daeva is trying to unmake the world. Emmy is in fact their sister and she's setting out to save the world with Althalus to help her. No easy task. First there is a quest to unearth the magical knife that will enable Emmy to assemble and commanProduct Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780002247542
eBay Product ID (ePID)91665005
Product Key Features
Publication Year2000
Book TitleThe Redemption of Althalus
Number of Pages704 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
AuthorLeigh Eddings, David Eddings
Dimensions
Item Height240 mm
Item Weight1046 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorDavid Eddings, Leigh Eddings