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Author(s) name: Andrzej Sapkowski
ISBN (or ASIN): 978-1-473-23106-1
Publisher:The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Publication Date: 7 June 2007 (in english)
Format Print: Paperback
Pg Count: 280
Description:
The Last Wish details the life of Geralt of Rivia. Geralt is a witcher, someone who has undergone an intensive process to become capable of fighting monsters. Each chapter alternates between a story from Geralt’s past and his present stay at the temple of Melitele. At the temple, Geralt is recovering from an injury under the care of his old friend, Nenneke, the high priestess. Nenneke tries to convince him to sit for a trance because she senses that there’s something wrong with him. Geralt refuses because Iola, who would conduct the trance, is clairvoyant and he doesn’t want to know his future.
In “The Witcher,” Geralt travels to the city of Wyzim to free a princess who was cursed to become a striga, a monster that hunts people at night. To fix the princess, Geralt needs to trap her outside of her sarcophagus through the entire night. After a ferocious fight, Geralt uses his magic to stun her. A few hours later, he finds her unconscious outside her sarcophagus. She slashes Geralt’s throat just as morning arrives, and the curse breaks. In “A Grain of Truth,” Geralt helps to break another curse. He finds a decrepit building in the forest where a humanoid monster lives. When Geralt doesn’t flinch, the creature introduces himself as Nivellen and invites him inside. Nivellen tells Geralt that he was cursed to look like a monster and that women stay at his estate in exchange for riches. Nivellen fell in love with one of them, Vereena, who Geralt recognizes as a type of vampire. Geralt attempts fight her and Nivellen stabs her. When Vereena dies, Nivellen is transformed back into a human.