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The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The City of Dreaming Books Walter Moers ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781590201114
Page: 464
Publisher: Overlook Press, The

The book is set in 1943 Berlin – the height of Nazism and World War II. Majority of the book really does revolve around the city of dreaming books, Bookholme, which is said to be inspired from the used books stores from the East Coast USA. Amazon.com: City of Dreaming Books . It tells how I came into possession of The Bloody Book and acquired the Orm. The City of Dreaming Books is a fantasy about the adventures of a book loving dinosaur from the land of Zamonian in the city of dreaming books. 'Optimus Yanspinner inherits from his godfather an unpublished manuscript by an unknown writer and sets off to track down the mysterious author, who disappeared into Bookholm--the so-called City of Dreaming Books. It has been more than two hundred years since Bookholm was destroyed by a devastating fire, as told in Moers's The City of Dreaming Books. City of Women (Book 2012) - Barnes & Noble ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR. The last mentioned character is the narrator and protagonist in Moers' Zamonia novel “The city of dreaming books”. The City of Dreaming Books is, bar none, what I would consider the definitive book about books. The entire city is devoted to selling books. Blurb for the back cover: “Rarely felt boring”. I like books so much that when I passed by this particular book inside Powells I got excited about a book being about books. Like it was a book that could have been written just for me. Anyway, The City of Dreaming Books immediately had that coming home feeling (that I've talked about previously, regarding the work of Philip K Dick) for me.