Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Proper Names in the Text

1. A New Beginning

2. Stories Before Dinner

3. The Mother’s Reminiscence: From the Grave

4. My Own Story: The Man with the Black Sword

5. In Green’s Jungle

6. The Guessing Game

7. Second Stories

8. My Second Story: The Man Who Returned

9. Fava’s Second Story: The Girl on Green

10. Untamed Talents

11. In the Field

12. An Exchange of Prisoners

13. Escape to Green

14. Duko Rigoglio

15. Before the Battle

16. A Young Man from the South

17. The Battle of Blanko

18. The End and Afterward

19. Say Father

20. Back at the Battlefield

21. The Red Sun

22. The Barbican and the Bear Tower

23. Why are the Inhumi Like Us?

24. Sinew’s Village

25. The God of Blue

About the Author

By Gene Wolfe from Tom Doherty Associates

Praise

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