A triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.
Chosen as a Best Book of 2024 by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Time, People, Vox, Elle, Scientific American, Polygon, Town & Country, Paste, Lit Hub, Kirkus and Vanity Fair.
“Marvelous”—the Washington Post
“The best fantasy of the year.”—the Wall Street Journal
“Grossman is at the top of his game”—the New York Times
Twenty-something Hollis Kessler languishes in a hopelessly magician-less world (with the exception of a fleet-footed nymph named Xanthe) not too far from where he graduated college. His friends do, too. They sleep late, read too much, drink too much, talk too much, and work and earn and do way too little. But . . .
Edward Wozny, a high-flying twenty-something personal banker, is about to take his first vacation in years. But before he can quite relax an unusual assignment comes his way: A wealthy, aristocratic client is asking — insisting even — that he help her inventory the private library she and her husband have inherited. . . .
