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S'està carregant… The Hood (2021)de Lavie Tidhar
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. second in the Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet series, and if anything a bit better than the first (though still not for everyone). Medieval England in this time is still a shithole, filthy, violent, and corrupt (the Holy Church is contributing gaily to that these days); they haven't quite yet managed to stamp out magic, but you know they will. this one is based more on folklore and ballads than on the Matiere itself, not to mention adding in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and whatever else comes to hand on the way to Sherwood Forest. it's the perfect soil for a Tidhar-style review of the state of the English nation. spoiler: he doesn't found it edifying, or even very different now. but the report he leaves when he draws all of this together is still brilliant, all the same. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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The Hood is the second book in Lavie Tidhar's ambitious Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet - a viscerally entertaining, ominously subversive and poetically profane remixing of the myths and legends that shaped our nation. God bless you, England, on this glorious Year of Our Lord, 1145. Don't cross the Templars. Everybody knows that. But Will Scarlett, back from the crusades, hopped up on khat and cider, did. Stabbed thrice in the belly but somehow still alive, he's heading home to Nottingham. And things are not right in Nottingham. It's the wood, you see. Sherwood. Ice-age ancient, impenetrable, hiding a dark and secret heart. As the ancient sages say, If you go into the woods today, you may not come out tomorrow, and the person who comes out may not be you... No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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