The Name of the Wind

About this audiobook

Kvothe, legendary wizard, musician, and adventurer, now lives quietly under an assumed name as an innkeeper, and agrees to tell a visiting scribe the true story of his life across three days. The Name of the Wind is that first day, tracing Kvothe from a childhood among traveling performers through tragedy, poverty, and his eventual arrival at a university for magic, and Patrick Rothfuss spent nearly a decade crafting the prose before the book ever reached readers.

Nick Podehl's narration has achieved something close to inseparability from the character itself among longtime fans, one listener on a narrator-appreciation thread wrote that Podehl's reading is how they got into audiobooks in the first place, and that they cannot imagine Kvothe's voice separate from his interpretation. That is an unusually strong claim for any narrator to earn, and it reflects how completely Podehl inhabits the character's wit, grief, and quiet arrogance across nearly twenty-eight hours.

Story: 4.6. Narration: 4.9. If you want to understand why audiobook narration can become inseparable from a beloved character, start here.

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