Abarat
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Een meisje komt terecht in een fantasy-wereld waar ze een cruciale rol te vervullen heeft.
Abarat Reeks
Ga op reis naar Abarat, een fantastisch aardsilipels bestaande uit vijfentwintig eilanden, die elk een uur van de dag vertegenwoordigen. Volg de verweven lotsbestemmingen van personages die door dit surrealistische landschap navigeren en een diepgaand conflict tussen licht en duisternis aangaan. Deze serie is een levendig tapijt van verbeelding, dat adembenemende beelden combineert met tot nadenken stemmende thema's. Ontdek een unieke wereld waar de grenzen tussen droom en werkelijkheid vervagen.
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Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchman to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't even remember learning? There is a mystery here. And Carrion, along with his fiendish grandmother Mater Motley, suspects that whatever Candy is, she could spoil their plans to take control of the Abarat. Now Candy's companions must race against time to save her from the clutches of Carrion, and she 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. And Candy is going to need to make some choices that will change her life forever ...
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.