A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1): The bestselling classic epic fantasy series behind the award-winning HBO and Sky TV show and phenomenon GAME OF THRONES - Softcover

George R.R. Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007548230 ISBN 13: 9780007548231

Publisher: HarperVoyager, 2014

Synopsis

HBO s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series. Completely immersive Guardian When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. From the fertile south, where heat breeds conspiracy, to the vast and savage eastern lands, all the way to the frozen north, kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men . . . all will play the Game of Thrones.

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A magnificent place, a Starkisean place. There's young Bran, and that's his direwolf. Bran overhead a secret - so thanks to an assaliant, he's now on the verge of dying. His mother Catelyn is by his side, pondering whether he'd live or not; she realizes her responsibility, though, for now Brian's father is gone with the king, it's up to her and her eldest son to protect Winterfell for unexpected dangers lurking ahead. And look! Crows are circling the place. From the scene Jon, Brian's bastard brother, is omitted; he's taken an oath to become a Black Brother. Excellent at fighting, Jon knows the Others are back. The Dead are back. And so the Night's Watch is in hazard too. Hazard from silent, frosty Dead Ones. Arya's stiches are crooked again. She came with the king Robert and her father here, to the tremendous castle of heat where the king resides. Her direwolf is with her. Her sister behaves girlishly; Arya despises her henceforth, as she herself is a manly girl, having the want to do something for the world. And there are things to be done. Wars to be fought. Everyone will take part. For this is the Game of Thrones. --By Amazon Customer on 19 May 2017

This book is really interesting, I can't take my eyes off it.It is written in simple language and the plot is easy to understand.I like the fact that all the important characters, their information has been clearly cited at the end of the book, in the appendix.I hope to read the next book of this series soon. --By Amazon Customer on 16 May 2017

From the Back Cover:

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. To the south, the king's powers are failing: his most trusted advisor dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself. Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards who come together in a time of grim omens. Here, an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal, a tribe of fierce wildings carry men off into madness, a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne, a child is lost in the twilight between life and death, and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperVoyager
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007548230
• ISBN 13: 9780007548231
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 912