The Guns of Avalon

“Guns of Avalon” is the second book of the cult cycle “The Chronicles of Amber.”

“He will return to Amber, as he promised himself and fate, when he wrote ‘Eric, I will return’—and signed: ‘Corwin, Lord of Amber.’ The black bird will find Corwin in the Shadows and show him the way into the Amber Kingdom.

But the return will turn out to be nothing like what was dreamed up in the dark and damp dungeon, where for many years a plan for revenge and a triumphant return of the new King was being nurtured—an army that will sweep away the resistance of the usurper. Maybe that’s how it would have happened, if not for the rash words of a curse uttered in a surge of despair and anger…”

(primorec)

And in general, of course...

“Ladies and gentlemen,

don’t expect an objective assessment. Just because I was one of those who, having read the first five books in a terrible translation on printed sheets, drew maps and stared at them with a kind of frenzy, waiting for the image to come alive.

That’s the way it is.”

(The Storyteller)

Translator(s): Yuri Rostislavovich Sokolov