The Book of the New Sun: Volume 1 (Shadow & Claw)

Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make his way across the perilous, ruined landscape of this far-future Urth But is his finding of the mystical gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, merely an accident, or does Fate have grander plans for Severian the torturer. . . ?

This edition contains The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator,