Anansi Boys -

Neil Gaiman

William Morrow & Company

2005

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9780060515188

One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.Anansi BoysGod is dead. Meet the kids.When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie. Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."

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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.