The City of Dreaming Books
Author: Walter Moers
The author of 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear transports us to a magical world. Optimus Yarnspinner finds himself marooned in the subterranean world of Bookholm, the City of Dreaming Books, where reading can be dangerous, where ruthless Bookhunters fight to the death.Optimus Yarnspinner, a young writer, inherits from his beloved godfather an unpublished short story by an….Read More
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