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Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Headline Publishing Group

Published:8th May '06

£9.99

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Bursting with imaginative power, this story blends fantasy with humour and drama

A darkly comic family fable, and companion novel to American Gods.

THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND COMPANION NOVEL TO AMERICAN GODS.

HIGHLY ANTICIPATED TELEVISION SERIES JUST ANNOUNCED - COMING ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO.

'Neil could never have known that he was writing for a confused Jamaican kid who, without even knowing it, was still staggering from centuries of erasure of his own gods and monsters' MARLON JAMES

'A warm, funny, immensely entertaining story about the impossibility of putting up with your relations - especially if they happen to be Gods' SUSANNA CLARKE

'It's virtually impossible to read more than ten words by Neil Gaiman and not wish he would tell you the rest of the story' OBSERVER

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'People think that funny and serious are mutually exclusives. They think they're opposites, and that's not actually true' NEIL GAIMAN

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Everything changes for Fat Charlie Nancy, the South London boy so called by his father, the day his dad drops dead while doing karaoke.

Charlie didn't know his estranged father was a god - Anansi the trickster, master of mischief and social disorder. He never knew he had a brother either.

Now brother Spider is on his doorstep, about to make life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous. It's a meeting that will take Fat Charlie from his London home to Florida, the Caribbean, and the very beginning of the world itself. Or the end of the world, depending on which way you're looking.

NEIL GAIMAN.
WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.

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**Includes reading-group discussion questions and an interview with Neil Gaiman**

To give him his full title: Neil Gaiman, Architect of Worlds, Svengali of Plot, Shaman of Character, Exploder of Cliche, Master Craftsman of Style, Dreamer, Laureate of the Republic of Letters -- David Mitchell
Beyond all the borders that divide us, there is a place of infinite possibilities and pure magic. I think of Neil Gaiman as a writer who wears the key to that land around his neck - the key to Storyland -- Elif Shafak
Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure-house of story -- Stephen King
A god in the universe of story -- Stephen Fry
A tonic for these turbulent times * Irish Times *
Much too clever to be caught in the net of a single interpretation -- Philip Pullman
Intimate, erudite and illuminating -- Guillermo del Toro
While we might come to his writing for gods and monsters, actually all human life is here * Independent *
A very fine and imaginative writer * The Times *
'Gaiman has a rich imagination...and an ability to tackle large themes' * Philip Pullman *

ISBN: 9780755305094

Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 36mm

Weight: 347g

496 pages