Anansi boys

R$ 65,90

Sinopse

Starred Review. If readers found the Sandman series creator's last novel, American Gods, hard to classify, they will be equally nonplussed—and equally entertained—by this brilliant mingling of the mundane and the fantastic. "Fat Charlie" Nancy leads a life of comfortable workaholism in London, with a stressful agenting job he doesn't much like, and a pleasant fiancée, Rosie. When Charlie learns of the death of his estranged father in Florida, he attends the funeral and learns two facts that turn his well-ordered existence upside-down: that his father was a human form of Anansi, the African trickster god, and that he has a brother, Spider, who has inherited some of their father's godlike abilities. Spider comes to visit Charlie and gets him fired from his job, steals his fiancée, and is instrumental in having him arrested for embezzlement and suspected of murder. When Charlie resorts to magic to get rid of Spider, who's selfish and unthinking rather than evil, things begin to go very badly for just about everyone. Other characters—including Charlie's malevolent boss, Grahame Coats ("an albino ferret in an expensive suit"), witches, police and some of the folk from American Gods—are expertly woven into Gaiman's rich myth, which plays off the African folk tales in which Anansi stars. But it's Gaiman's focus on Charlie and Charlie's attempts to return to normalcy that make the story so winning—along with gleeful, hurtling prose.

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Autor: Neil Gaiman

Autor

NEIL GAIMAN

Mistério, fantasia, humor requintado. Eis as linhas que se entrelaçam nas tramas de Neil Gaiman — um convite a transpor a muralha da realidade, como fizera Tristan Thorn, protagonista de O mistério da estrela – Stardust, romance publicado originalmente em edição ilustrada, que deu origem ao filme homônimo de 2007. Inglês radicado nos EUA, Gaiman é reverenciado mundialmente pelos fãs de quadrinhos por suas graphic novels, como a série Sandman. Inquieto e multipremiado, ele também escreve prosa e poesia, além de atuar como jornalista, roteirista, compositor e dramaturgo. Leitor voraz na infância de C.S. Lewis e J. R. R. Tolkien, entre outros, ele diz que não seria quem é sem as bibliotecas onde cresceu. Ler, afinal, é essencial à fantasia.