In the world of the Dying Earth, beneath a dim red sun, the wizard Yonoknou lives in his wondrous manor. When the cunning Kuzel attempts, unsuccessfully, to rob him, Yonoknou sends him as punishment and atonement to the distant North to find and bring back something precious: one of the Eyes of the Higher World, lenses through which even the humblest hut appears as a palace, and even the ugliest old woman seems a young beauty!
However, the acquisition of such an Eye involves Kuzel in adventures that will lead him to the haunted northern shore, the terrible Mountains of Magnaz, the vast stone-carving realm of the Wizard Faresm, the majestic Ertz Damath, the Silver Desert, and other even more bizarre places.
The cunning of Kuzel will entangle him in incredible situations, which sometimes provoke spontaneous laughter and at other times a cold shiver in the reader, who comes to know with him the incredible diversity of the creatures and places of the Dying Earth.
One of the best fantasy novels ever written, from the inexhaustible pen of Vance, which worthily rivals those of Lucian, Rabelais, Swift, and Voltaire.
