Imperio Final / The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson se ha consolidado como el gran renovador de la fantas�a del siglo XXI. Ha logrado ganarse a ocho millones de lectores, ser publicado en treinta pa�ses y convertirse en el heredero de todo un g�nero. Con El imperio final inicia la saga Nacidos de la Bruma (Mistborn), obra imprescindible del Cosmere, el universo destinado a dar forma a la serie m�s extensa y fascinante jam�s escrita en el �mbito de la fantas�a �pica.

Durante mil a�os han ca�do las cenizas y nada florece. Durante mil a�os los skaa han sido esclavizados y viven sumidos en un miedo inevitable. Durante mil a�os el Lord Legislador reina con un poder absoluto gracias al terror, a sus poderes y a su inmortalidad. Le ayudan «obligadores e «inquisidores , junto a la poderosa magia de la alomancia. Pero los nobles a menudo han tenido trato sexual con j�venes skaa y, aunque la ley lo proh�be, algunos de sus bastardos han sobrevivido y heredado los poderes alom�nticos: son los «nacidos de la bruma (mistborns). Ahora, Kelsier, el «superviviente , el �nico que ha logrado huir de los Pozos de Hathsin, ha encontrado a Vin, una pobre chica skaa con mucha suerte... Tal vez los dos, unidos a la rebeli�n que los skaa intentan desde hace mil a�os, logren cambiar el mundo y la atroz dominaci�n del Lord Legislador.

«Si te gusta la literatura fant�stica, lee a Brandon Sanderson. Chicote «Hace tiempo que George R. R. Martin tiene heredero. Javier Bl�nquez, El Mundo

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.

For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the Sliver of Infinity, reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier snapped and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails?