Book description
Over two hundred years ago Bookholm, the City of Dreaming Books, was
destroyed by a catastrophic firestorm. Optimus Yarnspinner, who
witnessed this disaster, has since become Zamonia's greatest writer
and is resting on his laurels at Lindworm Castle. Spoilt by his
monumental success and basking in adulation, he one day receives a
disturbing message that finally reinvests his life with meaning: a
cryptic missive that lures him back to Bookholm.
Rebuilt on a magnificent scale, the city is once more a vibrant
literary metropolis and Mecca of the book trade teeming with book
fanatics of all kinds. On the track of the mysterious letter that
brought him there, Yarnspinner has scarcely set foot in the city
before he falls prey to its spirit of adventure. He is reunited with
old friends like Inazia Anazazi the Uggly and Ahmed ben Kibitzer the
Nocturnomath, but he also encounters the city's new marvels, which
include the mysterious Biblionauts, the warring Puppetists, and the
city's latest craze, the Invisible Theatre.
Yarnspinner strays ever deeper into the Labyrinth of Dreaming Books,
which seems to wield a strange power over Bookholm's destinies. He is
eventually drawn into an irresistible maelstrom of events far more
sensational than any of the adventures he has previously embarked upon.
Yarnspinner is a popstar, the Michael Jackson of the printed word: in
short, a hero NDR [North German Broadcasting] Kultur Moers fans will
find everything they love: strange lifeforms, ample digressions, learned
allusions, a plethora of anagrams, and the disturbing illustrations that
are just as fine as they are humorous Buchercheck Walter Moers was
born in 1957 and is a writer, cartoonist, painter and sculptor. He is
the creator of the comic strips
The Little Asshole
and
Adolf
and his novels include of the cult bestseller
The 13 1/2 Lives of
Captain Bluebear
,
The City of Dreaming Books
and
The Alchemaster's Apprentice
. He lives in Hamburg.
