Edward Carey

Nel centro di una città, in quella zona abitata da gente con un po’ troppo denaro, c’è un parco. Al centro del parco c’è un piedistallo sprovvisto di...

Née à Strasbourg en 1761, la jeune Marie Grosholz, future madame Tussaud, est employée dès son plus jeune âge comme apprentie par un...

Nel 1761, una minuscola bambina di nome Marie viene alla luce in un villaggio in Svizzera. Qualche anno più tardi, dopo la morte dei genitori...

“Profound and delightful. . . . A strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting and art-making.” —Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny The ingenious storyteller Edward Carey returns to reimagine a time-honored fable: the story of an...

E se Geppetto e Pinocchio non si fossero incontrati nel ventre della balena? Edward Carey, narratore dall'estro geniale e dalla...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE "An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the...

The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the mysterious figure who threatens the theater's very survival The year is 1901. England’s beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich...

The Iremongers are a mean and cruel family, robust and hardworking, living in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items. A storm is brewing over Heap House....

In the aptly named borough of Foulsham, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way of making everyday objects assume human shape, and turning real people into objects....

Foulsham has been destroyed. Darkness lies heavily over the city; the sun has not come up for days. Inside the houses throughout the capital, ordinary objects have begun to move....