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Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and science fiction of his generation.

He lives deep in the forest in the time of King Wenceslas, in a village older than record.

As a young parish priest, Father Christopher has heard many confessions, but his own tale is more astounding than any revelation he has ever encountered in the confessional - for Chris was once a p

"Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. This book [is] important and wonderful." - Neil Gaiman on The Knight.