Anansi Boys -

Neil Gaiman

Review

2005

574 páginas

19h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780755305094

GOD IS DEAD
MEET THE KIDS

Fat Charlie Nancy is not having a good week. His estranged father recently dropped dead on a karaoke stage and has left Fat Charlie with much more than embarrassment. Because, you see, Charlie has discovered that his dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi the trickster spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and even baffle the devil. No wonder Fat Charlie’s life is about to be turned upside down.

Written by one of fiction’s most audaciously original talents Anansi Boys is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying and fiercely funny.

Includes extra material: An interview with Neil Gaiman and reading-group discussion questions.

Resenhas (16)

4 (Muito bom)

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.