The King's Name

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The King's Name
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Tor Books hardcover
Author Jo Walton
Cover artist Julie Bell
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSulien
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Tor Books
Publication date
December 2001 (1st edition)
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages368 (hardcover, 1st edition)
ISBN 0-312-87653-X (hardcover, 1st edition)
OCLC 47289635
823/.92 21
LC Class PR6073.A448 K54 2001
Preceded by The King's Peace  

The King's Name is a fantasy novel by Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton, published by Tor Books in October 2001. It was Walton's second novel and a sequel to her first, The King's Peace . A prequel, The Prize in the Game , was published in 2002.

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Sulien ap Gwien, a woman warrior and the ruler of a small part of the island of Tir Tanagiri, finds herself unwillingly drawn into a civil war that pits brother against brother and sister against sister. After surviving an attempted poisoning, she discovers that the sorcerer Morthu, an old enemy, is stirring up discontent and rebellion against her friend the High King. Sulien must bring together an unlikely group of allies and do battle in both the physical and the spiritual world to defeat the sorcerer and restore the rule of law.

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