Wind Walkers

Wind Walkers is a breathtaking, imaginative epic that transports readers to a sand-scarred Earth, where a fierce wind rages across a five-thousand-kilometer strip at its center, bordered by an uninhabitable ice mirror. The world is shaped by this unrelenting wind, with villages clinging to survival, sand yachts cutting across the terrain, and airpailleurs braving the flow. In the Far Downstream, a select group of twenty children is chosen, each capable of enduring the wind's fierce gusts, their mission to travel against it and reach its source—an unreachable destination known as the Far Upstream.

The novel follows Sov Strochnis, a scribe who also goes by many names: Caracole the troubadour, Oroshi Melicerte the aeromaster, and Golgoth, the tracer of the Horde. Along with his comrades, he forms the thirty-fourth iteration of the Horde of the Counterwind, a centuries-old group dedicated to conquering the impossible journey. Their predecessors have all failed, but Strochnis speaks for the last attempt. A captivating blend of adventure, philosophy, and survival, Wind Walkers explores human resilience in the face of an unstoppable force. Winner of the prestigious Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, this novel is a mesmerizing tale of determination, unity, and the limits of the human spirit.