in the great city, in the dimly lit office of an impossibly tall building,two creatures meet. gold changes hand, and the master of the house of helleboregives an order: war is coming. the child must die. in our own world,a young man discovers a manuscript written by his great uncle. it seemsto be a novel - a strange fairy tale of fantastic creatures and magicalrealms. but it is written as a diary, as if the events were real, as ifhis uncle had journeyed to another world. for the young man, the fantasyis about to become reality. a masterpiece of the imagination, the warof the flowers is a truly epic novel which once again pushes the boundariesof fantasy fiction into new and unexplored territory.