Intraprendete un viaggio ad Abarat, un arcipelago fantastico composto da venticinque isole, ognuna delle quali rappresenta un'ora del giorno. Seguite i destini intrecciati di personaggi che navigano in questo paesaggio surreale, affrontando un profondo conflitto tra luce e oscurità. Questa serie è un vivido arazzo di immaginazione, che fonde immagini mozzafiato con temi che fanno riflettere. Scoprite un mondo unico dove i confini tra sogno e realtà si sfumano.
A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold. . . . It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, it's not one she expects. Welcome to the Abarat.
Abarat ist eine wundersame und gefährliche Inselwelt voller Magie, bevölkert von fantastischen Geschöpfen, guten und bösen Monstern, Geistern, Zauberern und Hexen, bedroht durch den Fürst von Mitternacht. Nur das neugierige und furchtlose Mädchen Candy kann den Abarat-Archipel vor der ewigen Finsternis bewahren. Der neue Fantasy-Roman von Clive Barker: jetzt mit 32 Seiten Farbillustrationen und vielen Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen.
All things in their time . . .Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?Candy and her companions must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands.A final war is about to begin. . . .
Candy Quackenbush a basculé dans un monde parallèle, l'archipel d'Abarat, composé d'îles correspondant chacune à une heure de la journée. Plus la jeune fille s'enfonce dans Abarat, plus elle risque sa vie, car Christopher Gangrène, le seigneur de Minuit, a lancé ses hommes à sa poursuite. Candy n'arrive pas à comprendre pourquoi ce tyran sanguinaire lui voue une haine si farouche. Le temps presse, pourtant : la jeune fille doit résoudre l'énigme de son passé avant que les forces de la Nuit lancent leur attaque et que le noir absolu de Minuit recouvre à jamais les îles d'Abarat.
Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down! Candy Quackenbush, her allies, and her enemies are back in Abarat: Absolute Midnight, the third book in Clive Barker's New York Times bestselling Abarat series. "The waiting is over. Tomorrow there will be no dawn. Only midnight, absolute and eternal." Mater Motley, the Old Mother of Darkness herself—following the events of Abarat and Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War—has crafted a scheme that may destroy the Abarat, a vast archipelago where every hour is an island in one eternal day. When Candy discovers Mater Motley's secret plot, she realizes that only she can bring an end to the destruction. Only she can stop the complete darkness threatening to abolish all hope and happiness from the Abarat.