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Zusatztext " Empire Decayed is a multilayered novel; Kraus provides a commentary on American history while at the same time exploring issues such as family! religion! and power." Informationen zum Autor Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review , won the Alex Award, was an LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR, The New York Times , Chicago Tribune , and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored The Shape of Water , based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters , which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. His also cowrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus's The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly 's Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and more. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. He lives with his wife in Chicago. Visit him at DanielKraus.com. Klappentext "The conclusion to Daniel Kraus's saga about a murdered teen who is resurrected to walk the Earth for decades to come"-- Zusammenfassung From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling The Shape of Water comes the second and final book in the “utterly riveting” ( Entertainment Weekly ) epic tale about a murdered teen who is resurrected to walk the earth for more than a century. Zebulon Finch has faced more violence! lust! and heartbreak than any other seventeen-year-old in history. But nothing can prepare him for what is coming next. Half a century has passed since Zebulon Finch was gunned down and then inexplicably resurrected to experience a second life. Picking up his tale where he left off! Zebulon heads to Nazi Germany on a top-secret mission. From there he escapes to the shiny new world of the suburbs—a tidy neighborhood hiding dark secrets. He will exchange the pains of this world for what he believes will be peace among the stars. He will march for social change all the way to Woodstock! go raving mad in the desert! and finally exit from humanity the only way he knows how. We first met Zebulon sealed in a tomb beneath the World Trade Center—might he yet crawl from the rubble to discover a different America? Enthralling and gut-wrenching! The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch! Volume Two: Empire Decayed is the conclusion to the epic saga of one young man’s journey down the long road to redemption. ...
