The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart - Couverture souple

Bullington, Jesse

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316049344 ISBN 13 : 9780316049344

Editeur : Orbit, 2009

Synopsis

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart Hegel and Manfried Grossbart may not consider themselves bad men, but death still stalks them through the dark woods of medieval Europe. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Hegel and Manfried Grossbart may not consider themselves bad men - but death still stalks them through the dark woods of medieval Europe.

The year is 1364, and the brothers Grossbart have embarked on a naïve quest for fortune. Descended from a long line of graverobbers, they are determined to follow their family's footsteps to the fabled crypts of Gyptland. To get there, they will have to brave dangerous and unknown lands and keep company with all manner of desperate travelers-merchants, priests, and scoundrels alike. For theirs is a world both familiar and distant; a world of living saints and livelier demons, of monsters and madmen.

The Brothers Grossbart are about to discover that all legends have their truths, and worse fates than death await those who would take the red road of villainy.

Revue de presse :

'A pair of the vilest, meanest, most murderous thugs ever to grace the pages of a fantasy novel . . . This is not for the faint-hearted or the queasy imagine Tarantino crossed with Rabelais' --Guardian

'This is a tale grimmer than the grimmest of the Grimms, redolent of blood, excrement, vomit and putrefaction . . . As the antithesis of conventional fantasy, this is a tour de force' --Telegraph

'Darkly funny, profane, erudite, bawdy, and wickedly original, Jesse Bullington's The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart marks the debut of an amazing new talent. I loved it.' --Jeff VanderMeer

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Orbit
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0316049344
• ISBN 13: 9780316049344
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464