Added by: libera | Karma: 34.13 | Black Hole | 13 September 2020
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Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
God is dead. Meet the kids.
Fat Charlie Nancy’s normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn’t know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider is on his doorstep—about to make Fat Charlie’s life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous.
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A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real...
Anansi Boys is Gaiman's own blend of mythologically charged thriller, along the lines of his earlier novel American Gods. This time the story is set in the UK and the Caribbean and it's about gods, the magic of stories and the power of song. And in audio at least, it's even better. The audio book is comparatively easy listening and the narrator, Lenny Henry, is an uncannily successful match for the story. Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Henry straddles the two cultures comfortably and brings the songs, strories and characters in the novel to glorious life. An absolute delight to those of us who enjoy accents and good story-telling.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 15 August 2011
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Anansi Boys
One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys is a novel by Neil Gaiman, a spin-off of Gaiman's earlier novel American Gods. In Anansi Boys we discover that 'Mr. Nancy' (Anansi) has two sons, and the two sons in turn discover each other. The novel follows their adventures as they explore their common heritage.
Anansi and the Box of Stories: A West African Folktale
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids | 9 January 2009
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The sky god Nyame keeps all the world's stories locked in a box. But if Anansi can trick some of the earth's fiercest and quickest creatures, Nyame will share his stories. Will Anansi succeed?