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Thomas Covenant, a novelist and happily married with an infant son is stricken with leprosy. After having the last two fingers of his right hand removed he is taught that leprosy is incurable and that his only chance of survival is to reject all hope of relief. He returns to his home, Haven Farm to find his wife has divorced him and fled to protect their son from his illness.
He struggles to go on living as a leper, an outcast unclean. He begins to suffer bouts of unconscoiusness in which he appears to have adventures in a magical realm known only as the Land. He is greeted in the Land as a reincarnated ancient hero due his missing fingers and a his wedding ring of white gold, a talisman of great power.
Covenant chooses to interpret this magical place as an hallucination and responds with Unbelief. The Land cures Covenant's impotence and leprosy and he rapes a young girl called Lena who has befriended him. The people of the Land refuse to judge him and Lena's mother Atiaran and the Giant Saltheart Foamfollower help him to fulfill his destiny.
The Land has an ancient enemy, Lord Foul the Despiser, who dreams of destroying the Arch of Time and the Lords of Revelstone seem incapable of defeating him. Both the Lords and Foul seek Covenant's allegiance to achieve their ends. Covenant grants his passive support to the Lords and with the aid of the lost Staff of Law defeats one of Lord Foul's servants and is is released from the Land.
This is a very complex piece of work and can not be read without your full attention and concentration. This is adult fantasy fiction and as such may take the casual reader a period of time to become accustomed to. The effort is extremely rewarding and if you like a story to involve an anti-hero this is a book for you.
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John from Huddersfield
I have tried to read this book 3 times but it's just too hard to get into. The writing seems unnecessarily complicated and in the end I just gave up. I did enjoy the descriptions of the Land though.
Anon from Unknown
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