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The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books

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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.

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Vintage
Language
English
Pages
432

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Published in
London, UK
Translation Of
Das Labyrinth der Träumenden Bücher
Translated From
German

Classifications

Library of Congress
PT2673.O293

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
432
Dimensions
23.4 x 15.3 x 3.1 centimeters
Weight
521 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28504763M
ISBN 10
0099578263
ISBN 13
9780099578260
OCLC/WorldCat
858004311

Work Description

Hildegunst von Mythenmetz kehrt zurück in die »Stadt der Träumenden Bücher«

Über zweihundert Jahre ist es her, seit Buchhaim, die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher, von einem verheerenden Feuersturm zerstört worden ist. Der Augenzeuge dieser Katastrophe, Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, ist inzwischen zum größten Schriftsteller Zamoniens avanciert und erholt sich auf der Lindwurmfeste von seinem monumentalen Erfolg. Er gefällt sich im täglichen Belobhudeltwerden, als ihn eine verstörende Botschaft erreicht, die seinem Dasein endlich wieder einen Sinn gibt.

Verlockt durch einen rätselhaften Brief kehrt Hildegunst von Mythenmetz nach Buchhaim zurück. Die prächtig wiederaufgebaute Stadt ist erneut zur pulsierenden Metropole der Literatur und zum Mekka des Buchhandels geworden und wird durchströmt von Buchverrückten aller Art. Dem Rätsel auf der Spur gerät Mythenmetz, kaum hat er die Stadt betreten, in ihren abenteuerlichen Sog. Er begegnet alten Freunden wie der Schreckse Inazea Anazazi, den Buchlingen Ojahnn Golgo van Fontheweg, Dölerich Hirnfidler und Gofid Letterkerl, dem Eydeeten Hachmed Ben Kibitzer, aber auch neuen Bewohnern, Phänomenen und Wundern der Stadt, wie den mysteriösen Biblionauten, den obskuren Puppetisten und der jüngsten Attraktion Buchhaims, dem »Unsichtbaren Theater«. Dabei verirrt sich Mythenmetz immer tiefer im »Labyrinth der Träumenden Bücher«, das geheimnisvoll und unsichtbar die Geschicke Buchhaims zu bestimmen scheint. Bis er schließlich in einen unaufhaltsamen Strudel von Ereignissen gerät, der alle Abenteuer, die er je zu bestehen hatte, in jeder Hinsicht übertrifft.

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