Edward Carey

LAS COSAS NO SON LO QUE PARECEN. NUNCA CONFÍES EN LAS COSAS. Tras la primera entrega: Los secretos de Heap House, llega el segundo volumen de la trilogía. Los Iremonger son una familia peculiar. La mansion de HEAP HOUSE y sus mentiras quedaron atras. Ahora Clod, el escuchador, y la sirvienta Lucy Pennant han sucumbido a la maldicion familiar y se han convertido en indefensos objetos: Clod, una moneda de oro a la que muchos quieren echar el guante, se dirige a FOULSHAM, la infecta ciudad al otro lado del muro; Lucy, transformada en un insignificante boton, espera abandonada en la inmundicia de los CUMULOS a que alguien repare en ella y la saque de alli. Si al menos pudieran mantenerse unidos. Si al menos encontrasen ayuda y pudieran, por fin, enfrentarse a quienes desean acabar con ellos. Como todos los lugares malditos, FOULSHAM ha creado muchos monstruos. Algunos ni siquiera recuerdan quienes fueron. Pero alli donde no hay justicia ni esperanza, donde unos pocos deciden el futuro de los inocentes, los monstruos pueden ser los mejores aliados.

LAS COSAS NO SON LO QUE PARECEN. NUNCA CONFÍES EN LAS COSAS. Los Iremonger son una familia peculiar. Durante generaciones han permanecido en HEAP HOUSE, su laberíntica mansión, donde las jera

Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed "Little." Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employment in the household of reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. Her role soon surpasses that of mere servant as the eccentric doctor takes an interest in his newfound companion and begins to instruct her in the fine art of wax modelling.From the gutters of pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of Versailles, from clutching the still-warm heads of Robespierre's Terror to finding something very like love, Little traces the improbable fortunes of a bloodstained crumb of a thing who went on to shape the world...

There is a space between life and death: it's called waxworks' Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed "Little." Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employment in the household of reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. Her role soon surpasses that of mere servant as the eccentric doctor takes an interest in his newfound companion, and begins to instruct her in the fine art of wax modelling. From the gutters of pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of Versailles, from clutching the still-warm heads of Robespierre's Terror to finding something very like love, Little traces the improbable fortunes of a bloodstained crumb of a thing who went on to shape the word...

Es 1761, y una nina diminuta y de aspecto bastante extrano nace en un pueblo de Suiza. La llaman Anne Marie, aunque no tardaran en referirse a ella como Little.Pronto la tragedia se cierne sobre su vida: sus padres mueren, y su unica salida es convertirse en aprendiz y sirvienta de un excentrico modelador de cera, el senor Curtius. Esplendidas cabezas de cera la observan desde todos los angulos del taller: Curtius las rellena con trapos y serrin, y las vende por encargo a los hombres mas ricos de Berna.De la Suiza de su infancia a Paris, donde funda con el senor Curtius el primer museo de cera, y mas tarde a Versalles, para asistir a Maria Antonieta en el parto, esta es la asombrosa historia de la modeladora de cera mas ilustre de la Revolucion francesa. Porque la revolucion exige cabezas para su incansable guillotina, y solo ella puede conseguirlas.

LES COSES NO SÓN EL QUE SEMBLEN. NO ET REFIÏS MAI DE LES COSES. Després de la primera part d'Iremonger: Els secrets de Heap House, arriba el segon volum de la trilogia. Els Iremonger són una famíl

LES COSES NO SÓN EL QUE SEMBLEN. NO ET REFIÏS MAI DE LES COSES. Els Iremonger són una família peculiar. Durant generacions han viscut a HEAP HOUSE, la seva laberíntica mansió, on les jerarquies

Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com'Astonishing and inventive, it calls out to be read' - The Sunday Times'Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale' - New York Times'All of Edward Carey's work is profound and delightful' - Max Porter'If this were music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were film, he would be Tim Burton.' - NewsdayThe ghastly climax to the gothic Iremonger trilogyThe dirt town of Foulsham has been destroyed, its ashes still smoldering. 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. Strange new people run through the darkened streets. There are rumours of a terrible contagion. From the richest mansion to the poorest slum people have disappeared. The police have been instructed to carry arms. And rats, there are rats everywhere.Someone has stolen a certain plug.Someone is lighting a certain box of matches.All will come tumbling down.The Iremongers have come to London.

Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com'Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale' - The New York Times'Delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that a novel for children should be' - Eleanor Catton, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013'A rare work of individual brilliance' - Inis magazineThe Iremongers have taken up what was not wanted and wanted it.Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items collected from all over London. At the centre is Heap House, a puzzle of houses, castles, homes and mysteries reclaimed from the city and built into a living maze of staircases and scurrying rats. The Iremongers are a mean and cruel family, robust and hardworking, but Clod has an illness. He can hear the objects whispering. His birth object, a universal bath plug, says 'James Henry', Cousin Tummis's tap is squeaking 'Hilary Evelyn Ward-Jackson' and something in the attic is shouting 'Robert Burrington' and it sounds angry.

All of Edward Carey's work is profound and delightful' - Max Porter'Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale' - The New York Times'If this were music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were film, he would be Tim Burton.' - Newsday'A rare work of individual brilliance' - Inis magazineDark, gothic and delightfully macabre, the Iremonger family return...Foulsham, London's great filth repository, is bursting at the seams. The walls that keep the muck in are buckling, rubbish is spilling over the top, back into the city that it came from. In the Iremonger family offices, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger broods: in his misery and fury at the people of London, he has found a way of making everyday objects assume human shape, and turning real people into objects.

LAS COSAS NO SON LO QUE PARECEN. NUNCA CONFÍES EN LAS COSAS. Los Iremonger son una familia peculiar. Durante generaciones han permanecido en HEAP HOUSE, su laberíntica mansión, donde las jerarquías y los matrimonios vienen impuestos. En las plantas superiores vive la familia; en las inferiores, el servicio. Rodean la mansion los CUMULOS: montones de basura proveniente de todo Londres que se extienden hasta donde alcanza la vista.Todos los miembros de la familia perpetuan una tradicion, la de vivir ligados a un OBJETO DE NACIMIENTO que deben proteger con su vida. Los objetos parecen susurrar algo, pero solo Clod Iremonger, el ESCUCHADOR, es capaz de oirlos.La llegada de Lucy Pennant, nueva sirvienta de la mansion, lo cambiara todo. Porque en el horizonte de Heap House se adivina una gran tempestad. Y los secretos de la familia Iremonger estan a punto de saltar por los aires para siempre.