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Under the
streets of London
there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is (going to find out more than enough about this other London. A siri^le act of kindness catapults him put of his wodcday existence and into a world that is at once eerily/farhiíiar and utterly bizarre. Andi'a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his natiV^e cify: neverwhere.
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Neil Gaii^an is a star.\He constructs s|ories like soiijie demented cpjok might mai^e a wedding cake, building layer Upon layer„;lipcludlng all l^nds of sweet andlsour in the niijx' „ CllVe Barkfer _ V
'The sort of book Terry ' , Pratchett might produce if he . spent a month locked in a cell with Franz Kafka' (,
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'I didn't ever want this book ; to end Hunter, Islington, l Door - these...
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Fülszöveg
Under the
streets of London
there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is (going to find out more than enough about this other London. A siri^le act of kindness catapults him put of his wodcday existence and into a world that is at once eerily/farhiíiar and utterly bizarre. Andi'a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his natiV^e cify: neverwhere.
w \ .
Neil Gaii^an is a star.\He constructs s|ories like soiijie demented cpjok might mai^e a wedding cake, building layer Upon layer„;lipcludlng all l^nds of sweet andlsour in the niijx' „ CllVe Barkfer _ V
'The sort of book Terry ' , Pratchett might produce if he . spent a month locked in a cell with Franz Kafka' (,
wired '
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'I didn't ever want this book ; to end Hunter, Islington, l Door - these characters are part of my life now I'm ' over the moon about this book-
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doctor who and ! I John Milton the
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