The Tower of Fools

The Tower of Fools
	Cover of the UK edition of the book
Author	Andrzej Sapkowski
Audio read by	Peter Kenny (English)
Original title	Narrenturm
Translator	David French
Country	Poland
Language	Polish
Series	Hussite Trilogy
Genre	Historical fantasy
Published	2002 (superNOWA) (Polish); 2020 (Gollancz) (English);
Pages	432 (UK)
ISBN	978-1473226128
Followed by	Warriors of God

The Tower of Fools (Polish original title: Narrenturm) is the first historical fantasy novel in the Hussite Trilogy written by Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski, first published in 2002 in Polish and in English in 2020. It is followed by Warriors of God (Boży bojownicy).

It tells the story of Reinmar of Bielawa, also called Reynevan von Bielau. The action takes place in Silesia in 1425, at the time of the Hussite Wars.

The setting is mostly historical, with some historical characters and descriptions of particular locations. Fantasy elements include occasional magical feats, artifacts, and non-human characters. The German word Narrenturm means The Tower of Fools, a tower in which, in Middle Ages, people suffering from rare mental diseases were isolated.

The Tower of Fools has been translated to Czech, Slovak, Russian, German, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Spanish. Rights to the English translation of the trilogy have been acquired, and it has been published in 2020 by Orbit in the US, and Gollancz in the UK, with the translator being David French, translator of several Sapkowski's Witcher books.^[2]

References[]

^ Maria Langella-Sorgie (January 2021). "THE TOWER OF FOOLS by Andrzej Sapkowski David French Trans Read by Peter Kenny | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine.
^ Team, The Orbit (2018-10-11). "A brand new fantasy trilogy by Andrzej Sapkowski, New York Times bestselling author of the Witcher novels!". Orbit Books. Retrieved 2019-12-27.

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External links[]

Andrzej Sapkowski's official page(Polish)
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The Tower of Fools title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

[1] Maria Langella-Sorgie (January 2021). "THE TOWER OF FOOLS by Andrzej Sapkowski David French Trans Read by Peter Kenny | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine.

[2] Team, The Orbit (2018-10-11). "A brand new fantasy trilogy by Andrzej Sapkowski, New York Times bestselling author of the Witcher novels!". Orbit Books. Retrieved 2019-12-27.

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