From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Brandon Sanderson, "The Way of Kings," Book One of the Stormlight Archive series, begins an incredible new saga of epic scope.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Unusual hurricane winds scour the rocky terrain daily, shaping both ecology and civilization. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soil-less ground.

Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

Centuries have passed since the fall of the ten orders of knights known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and armor that transform ordinary men into nearly invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains.

There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his younger brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and understand the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of these other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called "The Way of Kings."

Troubled by overbearing visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untrained young woman named Shallan seeks to study under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah. Although she genuinely loves learning, Shallan’s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The product of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, "The Way of Kings" is merely the beginning of the Stormlight Archive series, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

"Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination."

and return to men the Shards they once held.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.

Year of Publication: 2011, Dimensions: 17.6x17.6cm