Terry Pratchett

Thud!

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Produktbeschreibung

Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork's more diminutive citizens?a volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to death . . . with a troll club lying conveniently nearby. Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the importance of solving the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes's second most-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six p.m. sharp to read Where's My Cow? to Sam, Jr.) But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. And the deadly puzzle is pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear?and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 106mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780062334985
• ISBN-10: 0062334980
• Artikelnr.: 40477594

Autorenporträt

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed author of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Color of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of more than fifty bestselling books which have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for his young adult novel, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest services to literature was to avoid writing any. He lived in England and died in 2015 at the age of sixty-six.

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Rezensionen

Imaginative, witty and consistent - as in consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns SFX magazine

"Pratchett's fantastic imagination and satirical wit are on full display." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Imgenious, brilliant and hilarious." - Washington Post

"A delight from beginning to end." - Fantasy & Science Fiction

"One of the darker Discworld tales, Thud! does not disappoint." - Sunday Express (London)

"Pratchett, ever inventive, offers up his usual fun and games with typography and footnotes, a full complement of parody, word-play and swift allusion. . . . But Thud! moves from a comedy of multi-culti Ankh-Morpork manners into a pungent exploration of prejudice and dread, hypocrisy and rage. For all its magic carriage rides, technomancy and gloriously absurd transfigurations, on Discworld, the death of innocents (and innocence) is never cause for laughter." - New York Newsday

"As always, Pratchett's latest Discworld yarn is funny, fast-paced, the kind of satire that explores serious issues while making readers love it." - Booklist

"Funny, poignant, complicated and character-driven." - Locus

"The usual quick-moving, amusing and entertaining Pratchett tale. Pratchett has never shied away from using his settings and characters to offer commentary on the world, and [THUD!] is no different . . . . [Pratchett]'s his usual brilliant self here -- sarcastic, ironic, and just laugh-out-loud funny." - Associated Press