Since his first Vlad Taltos novel in the mid-1980s, Steven Brust has gathered a loyal audience. With The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, originally published in 1987, Brust interweaves a traditional Hungarian folktale with the modern story of three young artists' struggle against the world's indifference. This underground cult novel will now be enjoyed by a wider and new generation of readers.

Once upon a time there was a kingdom that lived in darkness, for the sun, the moon and the stars were hidden in a box, and that box was hidden in a sow's belly, and that sow was hidden in a troll's cave, and that cave was hidden at the end of the world.

Once upon a time there was a studio of artists who feared they were doomed to obscurity, for though they worked and they worked, no one was interested in the paintings that stood in racks along their studio walls.

Steven Brust's fantasy novel The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars is a tale of two quests, of two young men who are reaching for the moon. And the sun. And the stars.