'The single most beautiful,solid,unearthly,and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century. A little golden miracle of a book.'- Neil Gaiman
Lud-in-the-Mist - a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter,which has its source in the land of Faerie,is a great trial to Lud,which had long rejected anything'other',preferring to believe only in what is known,what is solid.
Nathaniel Chanticleer is a somewhat dreamy,slightly melancholy man,not one for making waves,who is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past; a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. But with the disappearance of his own daughter,and a long-overdue desire to protect his young son,he realises that something is changing in Lud - and something must be done.
Lud-in-the-Mist is a true classic,an adult fairy tale exploring the need to embrace what we fear and to come to terms with'the shadows'- those sweet and dark impulses that our public selves ignore or repress.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781473225565Number of pages: 288Weight: 252 gDimensions: 200 x 136 x 21 mm
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The single most beautiful and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth centuryA Shakespearian tragi-comedy,a murder mystery and a multi-faceted allegory all in one; and a damn good story,tooWhat we have here is that rarest of creatures,the fantasy novel of ideas(involves) fundamental questions of how a society and its members understand their own history,and how they make sense of the conflicts embedded in social class and political power
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