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The Knight in the Panther Skin, Book One:
Avtandil’s Quest
Book one in prose of Shota Rustaveli’s medieval Georgain epic, the Knight in the Panther Skin.
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Storms gather on the far edges of the Arabian kingdom.
The King grows old, and the throne stands without an heir. To secure the realm's future, he crowns his only daughter to rule in her own right, an unprecedented act meant to avert ruin.
Days later, a stranger appears.He emerges from the wilds, clad in the skin of a panther and mounted on a midnight-black steed. When the King and his foster son Avtandil ride out to meet him, the stranger cuts down their men without mercy. Then he vanishes. No tracks. No sign. The King is left wondering whether the stranger was ever mortal at all.
Haunted by the bloodshed, Avtandil is summoned before the new queen. She is the woman he loves, and her command is impossible.
Uncover the truth of the Knight in the Panther Skin.
To obey, he must leave his homeland behind and journey beyond the known world, into lands no Arabian has ever seen.
Success will win him her hand, but failure will bring ruin to everything he holds dear.
And no one knows whether the knight he hunts is a man… or something far older and more dangerous.
