Shriek: An Afterword
(Sprache: Englisch)
A tragi-comic family story set in his now fabled imaginary city of Ambergris
Praised by China Miéville, The Times, Guardian and many others, this tale relates the scandalous, heart-breaking and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and...
Praised by China Miéville, The Times, Guardian and many others, this tale relates the scandalous, heart-breaking and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and...
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A tragi-comic family story set in his now fabled imaginary city of Ambergris
Praised by China Miéville, The Times, Guardian and many others, this tale relates the scandalous, heart-breaking and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies.
Praised by China Miéville, The Times, Guardian and many others, this tale relates the scandalous, heart-breaking and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies.
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Narrated with flamboyant intensity by one-time society figure Janice Shriek, and presenting a vivid gallery of strange characters and even stranger events, this is an account of the adventures of her brother Duncan, a historian obsessed with a doomed love affair and a dark secret that may kill or transform him. It involves, too, a war between rival publishing houses which threatens to change Ambergris forever, and rivalry with a marginalised race known as the "grey caps" who, armed with advanced fungal technologies, wait underground for their chance to recover the city that was once theirs. This story of the family Shriek is an exotic and colourful novel of love, life and death which brings to fruition the author's genius for capturing the truly weird.'Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humour. Ambergris is one of my favourite haunts in fiction' CHINA MIÉVILLE, author of Perdido Street Station
Janice Shriek, ex-society figure, narrates this tale with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions. We follow the adventures of her brother Duncan, an historian obsessed with a doomed love affair, and learn of a secret that may kill or transform him. We witness a war between rival publishing houses that will change Ambergris forever. And we're introduced to the gray caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies, who've been waiting underground for their chance to mould the future of the city.
Shriek: An Afterword is an epic yet personal look at life, love and death in the vividly imagined city of Ambergris. And, through this tumultuous story of the family Shriek, the author shows his genius at capturing and displaying the bizarre.
Autoren-Porträt von Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer ist für "Die Verwandlung des Martin See" mit dem World Fantasy Award ausgezeichnet worden. Seine Werke - darunter sein hoch gelobter Erstlingsroman "Veniss Underground" - sind in über 20 Ländern erschienen. 2001 zählte ihn die SF-Zeitschrift "Locus" zu den zehn führenden Autoren phantastischer Literatur auf der Welt.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jeff VanderMeer
- 2007, Main Market Ed., 464 Seiten, Maße: 17,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 0330440047
- ISBN-13: 9780330440042
Sprache:
Englisch
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