Por primera vez en muchos siglos, un joven de la isla de Loh no muestra talento alguno para la magia y por ello no puede recibir la misma formación que sus compañeros.
Matei, uno de los siete magos más poderosos del reino, descubre una fuerza maligna que amenaza la existencia de su mundo pero ningún hechicero, por muy grande que sea su poder, puede hacer frente al horror de la magia incolora.
A medida que el peligro se va acercando, Matei se da cuenta de que Lethe, el No Mago, posee dones que pueden resultar cruciales para la supervivencia de las islas del reino.

W.J. Maryson is one of the heavyweights in of Dutch fantasy. Before publishing this book in 2002, he had already written a fantasy series in six parts called Meestermagiër (litteraly: Master Magician) which did quite well in the Netherlands and has been translated in German (and probably a few other languages). Despite my efforts to get better acquainted with Dutch speculative fiction, my experience with Maryson's work is limited to one short piece published in the collection Time Out, for which he also did the cover art. The reason I read this book is not so much to fill the shameful gap in my library but rather the fact that it has been published in English in August under the title The Towers of Romander (just this once I'll include the Amazon link). The American market in particular is very hard to penetrate for foreign language authors. Translated short fiction appears regularly, there are magazines and websites that focus on work form non-Anglophone nations, but full novels, now that is a challenge. To my knowledge, Maryson is the only Dutch fantasy author to manage this feat in recent years. A remarkable achievement...

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