The Ocean at the End of the Lane -

Neil Gaiman

William Morrow Paperbacks

2014

259 páginas

8h 38m

ISBN-13: 9780062255662

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

Resenhas (48)

4 (Muito bom)

Um oceano inteiro de magia

Gaiman tem uma criatividade acima da média. As curvas que ele dá na narrativa e a própria maneira com que ele divide a história com o leitor é uma prova disso.

Qualquer pessoa que lê este livro poderia partir de vários significados implícitos. Mas ao meu entendimento, é uma história de fantasia e ponto. Muito bem contada, eu diria até.

A gente acaba o livro sem saber o que achou, se gostou ou não. E, caso não, por quê?

Gostei do livro por esse motivo. A maneira como o autor conta uma história que se passa perto de um lago que, na verdade, é um oceano inteiro de magia.