This is the riveting first-person narrative of Kvothe, a young man who grows to be one of the most noto r ious magicians his wo r ld has ever seen. fr om his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral o r phan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transpo r ts readers into the body a nd mind of a wizard.