hardcover, 342 pages
Published July 6, 2001 by Gollancz.
MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY).
The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities.
And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is:
Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard'...
Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying...
...and a very special butterfly.
MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY).
The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities.
And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is:
Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard'...
Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying...
...and a very special butterfly.
I probably won't be reading this one again. A rare stinker in the wonderful Discworld series. The mockery of Asian culture just falls flat in a modern society.
I probably won't be reading this one again. A rare stinker in the wonderful Discworld series. The mockery of Asian culture just falls flat in a modern society.
Amatöörivelho Rincewind päätyy itämaille keskelle vallankumous-kaappaus-valloitussotaa. Orientalistinen vitsailu on vähän nihkeää, eikä raiskausvitsitkään varsinaisesti hauskoja ole. Sanotaan, että semmoista keskitason kohellusta.
