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The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz de Russell Hoban

The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Russell Hoban
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2021
'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's'New Statesman

'I have gone to look for a lion.'In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else: a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and time, a bringer of life and death.

'Magic at work ... Funny as well as beautiful'Irish Times

'Hoban is unclassifiable, thank goodness. His narrative is so minutely and compellingly realistic that after a time you cease to notice that he has stood reality on its head'Sunday Times
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241485712
ISBN-10: 0241485711
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

On his death in 2011,The TimesdescribedRussell Hobanas 'perhaps the most consistently strange writer of the late 20th century'. He thought and wrote in an extraordinary range of genres, becoming first a bestselling writer of children's books, particularly the immortalFrancesstories and his first novel,The Mouse and His Child(1968). After its publication he continued to write for children (most notably perhaps theCaptain Najorkbooks with Quentin Blake andThe Marzipan Pig), but focussed most of his energies on a sequence of wonderful novels, which began withThe Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz(1973) and ended withAngelica Lost and Found(2010). He also wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's operaThe Second Mrs Kong(1994).

His novels were wildly various, but share his obsession with objects, animals, specific works of art and pieces of music, his love of words and sense of humour. Penguin Modern Classics publishes his first eight novels:The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz,Kleinzeit,Turtle Diary,Riddley Walker,Pilgermann,The Medusa Frequency,FremderandMr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer.

Recenzii

Magic at work ... Funny as well as beautiful.
Amazingly, the mythology is sustained in totally modern terms, desolate, comic and urban.
A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's.
Worth rejoicing in ... a banquet of whimsical delights. Each Russell Hoban book is surprising ... but you also know what you're getting, which is curiosity, wonder and a world-encompassing empathy.
Mr. Hoban is unclassifiable, thank goodness. His narrative is so minutely and compellingly realistic that after a time you cease to notice that he has stood reality on its head.