Book description
'Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.'
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: 'Hey, you!'
This is the Discworld, after all, and religion is a controversial
business. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods,
of every shape and size, and all elbowing for space at the top. In
such a competitive environment, shape and size can be pretty crucial
to make one's presence felt. So it's certainly not helpful to be
reduced to appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far
below god-like status in anyone's book.
In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast: for the Great God
Om, Brutha the novice is the Chosen One - or at least the only One
available. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also
wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...
Terry Pratchett
is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series,
the first of which,
The Colour of Magic
, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling
books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he
is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal and the
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, as well as being
awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his
books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into
thirty-seven languages.
