The Tower of Fools
core novel 2020 The Hussite Trilogy
Record
| Original title | Narrenturm |
|---|---|
| First published | 2020 |
| Original language |  PL |
| First English translation | 2020 |
| Translator | David French |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.57 (2,113 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 549 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316423687 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The Tower of Fools, published by Andrzej Sapkowski in 2020, opens the Hussite Trilogy. In 1425, amid the escalating turmoil of the Hussite Wars, young Reynevan of Bielawa, a physician and minor sorcerer from Lower Silesia, is forced to flee his home after an affair with another man's wife provokes deadly retribution from her husband's powerful family. Pursued by enemies on multiple fronts and desperate to find his lover Adela, Reynevan falls in with a shifting cast of strange and often untrustworthy companions as he moves through a landscape torn apart by religious schism and political rivalry. His flight steadily pulls him deeper into the wider chaos engulfing Bohemia and Silesia, where personal survival becomes inseparable from the era's larger conflicts between Hussite reformers, the Catholic Church, and the region's competing secular powers.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Hussite Trilogy
- Series: The Hussite Trilogy core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Notes
- From the series record (The Hussite Trilogy): Historical dark fantasy by the creator of The Witcher, set amid the real Hussite Wars in 15th-century Silesia and Bohemia, following the sorcerer-scholar Reinmar of Bielawa; original Polish publication 2002-2006 (Narrenturm, Boży bojownicy, Lux perpetua), English translation by David French 2020-2022.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Hussite Trilogy: position 1 of 3: next Warriors of God (2021)
Sources
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