THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis enthralling novel, inspired by the 2006 film, illustrates that fantasy is the sharpest tool to explore the terrors and miracles of the human heartYou shouldn't come in here. You could get lost. It has happened before. I'll tell you the story one day, if you want to hear it. In fairy tales, there are men and there are wolves, there are beasts and dead parents, there are girls and forests. Ofelia knows all this, like any young woman with a head full of stories. And she sees right away what the Capitán is, in his immaculate uniform, boots and gloves, smiling: a wolf. But nothing can prepare her for the fevered reality of the Capitáns eerie house, in the midst of a dense forest which conceals many things: half-remembered stories of lost babies; renegade resistance fighters hiding from the army; a labyrinth; beasts and fairies. There is no one to keep Ofelia safe as the labyrinth beckons her into her own story, where the monstrous and the human are inextricable, where myths pulse with living blood ...
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Weight: 284g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 09 Jul 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781526609588
About Cornelia FunkeGuillermo Del Toro
Cornelia Funke is an award-winning childrens author. Her books have been translated from German into 35 different languages and include Inkheart Inkspell Inkdeath The Thief Lord Dragonrider and the Reckless series. A film adaptation of The Thief Lord came out in 2006 and the Hollywood production of Inkheart was released in 2008. Cornelia lives in Malibu California. Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican film director screenwriter producer and novelist. In his career del Toro has alternated between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces such as The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth and more mainstream American action films such as Blade II Hellboy and Pacific Rim. His 2017 film The Shape of Water won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018. Del Toro also received an Academy Award for Best Director as well as the Golden Globe BAFTA Critics' Choice and Directors Guild of America.