Soldier of Arete
The second volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who, while fighting in Greece, received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Year
- 1989
- ISBN-13
- 9781466828254
- Genre
- FantasyFiction
- Topics
- Memory lossAncient Greece and mythologyWar and mercenary life
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy NovelShortlisted(1990)
- World Fantasy Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1990)
Other awarded books from Gene Wolfe
- The Sword of the Lictor
- The Claw of the Conciliator
- The Shadow of the Torturer
- Soldier of the Mist
- Soldier of Sidon
- The Citadel of the Autarch
- Free Live Free
- The Urth of the New Sun
- The Wizard Knight
- Nightside the Long Sun
- The Land Across
- A Borrowed Man
- An Evil Guest
- Calde of the Long Sun
- The Knight
- Caldé of the Long Sun
- Castleview
- Exodus from the Long Sun
- Home Fires
- In Green's Jungles
- Interlibrary Loan
- On Blue's Waters
- Pirate Freedom
- Return to the Whorl
- The Book of the Long Sun
- The Sorcerer's House
- There Are Doors
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