Anansi Boys -

Neil Gaiman

Headline Publishing Group

2021

474 páginas

15h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780755305094

Everything changes for Fat Charlie Nancy, the South London boy so called by his father, the day his dad drops dead while doing karaoke.

Charlie didn't know his estranged father was a god - Anansi the trickster, master of mischief and social disorder. He never knew he had a brother either.

Now brother Spider is on his doorstep, about to make life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous. It's a meeting that will take Fat Charlie from his London home to Florida, the Caribbean, and the very beginning of the world itself. Or the end of the world, depending on which way you're looking.

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Be trapped like in a spider's web.

Trying to reach out to his father, Fat Charlie faced a deep piece of news about his old man’s death on the karaoke stage, flirting with a girl. The biggest surprise came next, when Fat Charlie learns that his father actually was an old god called Anansi, a spider-god, the spirit of rebellion, and he had left a brother Fat Charlie was not aware of. Why has a single word never been mentioned about this Charlie’s sibling or his father's nature? Attending by the name Spider, this brother is called and transforms Fat Charlie’s life into a sequence of distress and even dangerous events.

This well-written book is a clear demonstration of the brilliantism that can be taken from Neil Gaiman’s work. You are driven to follow his writing filled with laughing provoking moments, while you intrigue yourself over Fat Charlie’s conflicts. If you know Gaiman from his masterpiece American Gods or Sandman, you are invited to see another approach in his storytelling and have fun while enjoying every page. If this is your first Gaiman’s book, it’s an excellent sample of how Neil can tell good stories that trap you in, like a spider’s web.

An easy-to-read book which gives to its reader a clever, funny and fantastical reading experience in a way that only Neil Gaiman can be renowned for. Strongly recommended.