The City of Dreams

Informationen zum Autor Walter Moers was born in 1957 and is a writer, cartoonist, painter and sculptor. He is the creator of the comic strips The Little Asshole and Adolf and the author of the cult bestseller The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear and A Wild Ride Through The Night . He lives in Hamburg. Klappentext A novel which transports us to a magical world where reading is still a genuine adventure! where books can not only entertain people and make them laugh but drive them insane or even kill them. 'Marvellously fantastical.' "Sunday Express" Zusammenfassung He finds himself in a subterranean world where reading books can be genuinely dangerous, where ruthless Bookhunters fight to the death for literary gems and the mysterious Shadow King rules a murky realm populated by Booklings, one-eyed beings whose vast library includes live books equipped with teeth and claws.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Moers, Moers Walter
• Assisted by: John Brownjohn (Translation), Brownjohn John (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2007
• EAN: 9780099490579
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949057-9
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 34 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Zamonien; Zamonien
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), mystery; adventure; j k rowling; crossover; 13 lives