Neverwhere - Illustrated Edition

Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell

William Morrow

2017

448 páginas

14h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780062821331

Selected as one of NPR’S Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time

The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s dark classic of modern fantasy, beautifully illustrated for the first time by award-winning artist Chris Riddell, and featuring the author’s preferred text and his Neverwhere tale, “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.”

Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman’s first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent. Over the years, various versions have been produced around the world. In 2016, this gorgeously illustrated edition of the novel was released in the UK. It is now available here, and features strikingly atmospheric, painstakingly detailed black-and-white line art by Chris Riddell, one of Gaiman’s favorite artistic interpreters of his work.

Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl—an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere—a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Here in Neverwhere, Door is a powerful noblewoman who has vowed to find the evil agent of her family’s slaughter and thwart the destruction of this strange underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Door’s quest to save her world—and may well die trying.

Resenhas (28)

5 (Perfeito)

A falta de foco e sua magia

Foi a falta de foco que fez Richard perceber o que acontecia ao seu redor. Foi a percepção do não útil e dos acontecimentos aleatórios que o levou até a sua verdadeira história. Apesar de aterrorizante e perigoso o novo caminho a jornada trouxe emoções e conquistas que fizeram com que ele nunca mais quisesse voltar para sua antiga vida.
A aventura e a magia está sempre ao nosso redor. Se desejar, basta apenas procurar, mas cuidado, pois voltar atrás será impossível.