Last yr, Andrzej Sapkowski completed writing one other Witcher e book, marking his second return to the collection. Though he declared he’d completed the Witcher saga in 1999, he returned to it in 2013 with Season of Storms, an interquel largely set between present tales, and left the door open for extra books set earlier than or throughout the saga. This new e book, referred to as Crossroads of Ravens in English and Rozdroże Kruków in Polish, can be a prequel.
According to the press launch from English-language publishers Gollancz and Orbit, it is about an 18-year-old model of Geralt. They say that most individuals spend their 20s determining who they’re and their 30s making an attempt to inform individuals who they’re, however who is aware of something after they’re 18? You’re barely an individual but.
So it’s going to presumably be a extra naive Geralt, not even “of Rivia” but, who units out from Kaer Morhen on his first mission in Crossroads of Ravens. During that mission he’ll “uncover monsters, traitors, some new mates and a few acquainted faces, and simply how deeply feared and despised Witchers may be.”
“In Rozdroże Kruków,” Sapkowski stated, “I return to the roots of Geralt’s journey—not the fearless monster slayer we all know, however a younger Witcher simply starting to know the burden of his future. Imagine Geralt, however youthful, with fewer scars and a bit extra haughtiness. This is a narrative of development, of idealism assembly harsh actuality, and of decisions that forge a legend. It’s about discovering your house in a world that is consistently difficult you to be greater than you thought you may be. As this new story finds its method to readers throughout the globe this yr, I can not look ahead to them to stroll alongside a youthful Geralt—experiencing the trials that solid him and the journey that set him on the highway to his future.”
It’ll be launched in English, and greater than 19 different languages, on September 30. The translation is by David French, who translated six of the earlier eight Witcher books into English. The remaining two, The Last Wish and Blood of Elves, can be reprinted with new English translations by French subsequent yr.
