The Dragon Keeper

by Robin Hobb

Overview

Vverh po reke, na sever, v soprovozhdenii zhivogo korablya i serebristo-sinego drakona probiraetsya Klubok Moolkina — poslednie iz plemeni, kogo udalos' sobrat' proroku s zolotymi glazami. EHto chrezvychajno tyazhelyj i opasnyj put', no zmeinomu narodu ne vyzhit', esli on ne doberetsya do gnezdov'ya, gde mozhno perezimovat' v spasitel'nyh kokonah i dat' potomstvo. No dazhe esli cel' budet dostignuta i iz kokonov vylupyatsya novye drakony, kto voz'metsya zashchishchat' i opekat' ih, bespomoshchnyh i nerazumnyh, v isterzannom vojnoj mire?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785389164642
Publisher:	Azbooka
Publication date:	04/15/2019
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	576
File size:	920 KB
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Robin Hobb is a pseudonym of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (who also writes as Megan Lindholm). She is best known for the books set in the Realm of the Elderlings, which started with the books in the Farseer trilogy—Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and Assassin's Quest. This led to three additional trilogies, as well as the Rain Wild Chronicles (including Dragon Keeper & Blood of Dragons). She has been a finalist for both the Nebula and Hugo awards.

Editorial Reviews

The cocoons spun by the migrating sea serpents have burst open to reveal a new generation of dragons that will wreak havoc on the communities of Bingtown and Cassarick. Council members select humans born with strange physical mutations to help with the problem, as well as an unusual dragon "expert," the unfulfilled wife of a Bingtown Trader. Hobb's two-book miniseries, set in the same world as the "Liveship Traders" and the "Tawny Man" series, continues the tale of an exotic land and the people transformed by its inherent magic. VERDICT Human and dragon characters achieve a remarkable degree of believability in this inventive saga marked by its vivid detail and keen insight into human (and draconic) nature. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/09; the second book, Dragon Haven, pubs May 2010.—Ed.]

Library Journal

Hobb (Renegade's Magic, 2008, etc.) delivers the first of two dragon-filled fantasies, set in the same world as her popular Liveship Traders trilogy. This inaugural title deals mainly with the swirl of events leading up to a quest to find the legendary city of Kelsingra by a group of sickly, deformed, sentient dragons and their human keepers. A host of human and dragon characters are introduced, but two well-drawn women take center stage: unhappily married Trader Alise, a scholar of dragons; and teenage Thymara, a dragon-keeper who is herself deformed by scaly skin and claws. Hobb does an admirable job of creating a complex and engaging medieval fantasy world, greatly expanding on the Rain Wilds setting she introduced in previous books. Characters from past novels make cameos, but the author takes care to keep her new tale self-contained. She handles with originality and subtlety such traditional fantasy elements as dragons and magical items. The only complaint readers may have is that, after hundreds of pages of buildup, the novel ends abruptly before the main quest really gets going. A nicely imagined fantasy setting that will engage readers and raise anticipation for the second installment.

Kirkus Reviews