Guardians of the west

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Title:

Guardians of the west

Author:

Eddings, David.

ISBN:

9780345352668

Edition:

1st mass market ed.

Publication Information:

New York : A Del Rey Book, 1988, c1987.

Physical Description:

438 pages : map ; 18 cm.

General Note:

"A Del Rey book."

Subject Term:

Prophecies -- Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Summary:

Garion had slain the evil God Torak and been crowned King of Riva. The Prophecy was fulfilled-or so it seemed. While the strane child Errand was growing up in the Vale of Aldur with Polgara and Durnik, showing only occasional flashes of inexplicable knowledge and power. Garion was learning to rule and to be the husband of his fiery little Queen Ce'Nedra. Eleven years passed then suddenly the Voice of Prophecy cried out a warning.

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Here, in the eagerly awaited sequel to David Eddings' bestselling The Belgariad, is the first book of The Malloreon, an epic quest across strange lands and among stranger peoples--a magnificent fantasy of men, Kings, Sorcerers, and Gods caught up in the culmination of the seven-thousand-year war between two opposing Destinies to determine the fate of all creation.

Garion had slain the evil God Torak and been crowned King of Riva. The Prophecy was fulfilled--or so it seemed. While the strange child Erand was growing up in the Vale of Aldur with Plgara and Durnik, showing only occasional flashes of inexplicable knowledge and power, Garion was learning to rule and to be the husband of his fiery little Queen Ce'Nedra. Eleven years passed.

Then suddenly the Voice of Prophecy cried out a warning: "Beware Zandramas!" Not even Belgarath the Sorcerer knew who or what Zandramas was. But Garion discovered hints in a previously obscured part of the Mrin Codex. Worse, he learned that the Dark Prophecy was still waging its ancient struggle against the Prophecy of Light. Again, a great evil was brewing in the East. And again, Garion found himself a pawn, caught between the two ancient Prophecies, with the fate of the world somehow resting on him.

Author Notes

David Eddings was born on July 7, 1931 in Spokane, Washington. He received a B.A. in English from Reed College in Portland in 1954 and a M.A. in Middle English from the University of Washington in 1961.

After serving in the U.S. Army for two years, he worked as a grocery clerk, as a sales clerk for the Boeing Company, and as an English teacher in a business college and a teachers' college.

During his lifetime, he wrote more than 25 books, many of them with his wife Leigh Eddings. His first novel, High Hunt, was published in 1973. His other works include the Belgariad series, the Mallorean series, the Elenium series, and the Dreamers series. He died on June 2, 2009 at the age of 77.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Kirkus Review

Eddings' hard-over debut is the first of a new sword & sorcery series and a sequel to his five-part paperback Belgariad. Faithful readers will recall that, at the end of the Belgariad, King Garion, armed with the prophetic Orb of Aldur, slew the evil god Torak. And so everyone settled down to live happily ever after, right? Wrong. After several idyllic years, marred only by a marital tiff or two, Garion and the boy Errand (he is beginning to display strange new powers of sorcery) are contacted by the Orb and told to ""Beware Zandramas!"" Who or what is Zandramas? Nobody knows, but evidently it's bad news, since several of Garion's prophetic books hint at evils still to come. Eventually, after much ballyhoo, Zandramas emerges as a mysterious, evil sorcerer of vast power; he instructs his minions, fanatic Bear-cultists, to kidnap Garion's infant son. Thus, things are shaping up for another prolonged struggle among men, kings, sorcerers, gods, evildoers, Orbs, and whatnots, with--you guessed it--the fate of the universe at stake. All this is shamelessly padded out to 460 pages with recaps, explanations, reminders, hints, Boy Scout-ish doings, cute domestic scenes, and gosh-wow dialogue. Lots of huffing-puffing stage-setting, then, but of real substance there is none. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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