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The Hugo Award Winner–2002

The Nebula Award Winner–2002

A master of inventive fiction, Neil Gaiman delves into the murky depths where reality and imagination meet. Now in American Gods, he works his literary magic to extraordinary results.

Shadow dreamed of nothing but leaving prison and starting a new life. But the day before his release, his wife and best friend are killed in an accident. On the plane home to the funeral, he meets Mr. Wednesday—a beguiling stranger who seems to know everything about him. A trickster and rogue, Mr. Wednesday offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard. With nowhere left to go, Shadow accepts, and soon learns that his role in Mr. Wednesday’s schemes will be far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought—and the prize is the very soul of America.

When Fat Charlie’s dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie “Fat Charlie.” Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can’t shake that name, one of the many embarrassing “gifts” his father bestowed—before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie’s life.

Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie’s doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is to day, a brother who’s going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun… just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.

Because, you see, Charlie’s dad wasn’t just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion; he is able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, baffle the devil, and cheat Death himself.

Exciting, scary, and deeply funny, is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth, a wild adventure, and a fierce and unstoppable farce, as Neil Gaiman shows us where gods come from, and how to survive your family.

Задверье.

«Мир под Лондоном».

Здесь Слово становится Силой в прямом смысле – ведь слова, которые в Над-Лондоне всего лишь названия улиц, парков, станций метро, в Под-Лондоне обретают ИСТИННУЮ ЖИЗНЬ.

Пирует в пустых вагонах метро на станции «Эрлс-Корт» химерический двор буйного Эрла…

Хранят древнюю тайну Чернецы, чья крепость расположена под станцией «Блэкфрайерз»…

Несет смертельную угрозу Великая змея Серпентина – суть озерца Серпентайн…

Есть миры и миры, а есть между ними – ДВЕРИ. И путь в Задверье для нового Странника – Ричарда Мейхью – открывает девушка д’Верь.

Дорога вниз НАЧИНАЕТСЯ…

Начинается один из лучших романов эстета «черной готики» Нила Геймана!

In the sleepy English countryside, at the dawn of the Victorian Era, life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall, so named for an imposing stone barrier that divides the village from an adjacent meadow. Armed sentries guard the sole gap in this wall, in order to keep the curious from wandering through. Here in Wall, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to beautiful Victoria Forester. But Victoria is cold and distant—as distant, in fact, as the star she and Tristran see fall from the sky on a crisp October evening. For the coveted prize of Victoria’s hand, Tristran vows to retrieve the fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends the lovelorn swain over the ancient wall, and propels him into a world that is strange beyond imagining. But Tristran is not the only one seeking the heavenly jewel. There are those for whom it promises youth and beauty, the key to a kingdom, and the rejuvenation of dark, dormant magics. And a lad compelled by love will have to keep his wits about him to succeed and survive in this secret place where fallen stars come in many guises—and where quests have a way of branching off in unexpected directions, even turning back upon themselves in space and in time.

…Американские боги. Боги, завезенные в Новый свет бесчисленными иммигрантами. Боги, рожденные индейскими племенами. Боги новых культов – телевидения, бизнеса, науки…

Царица Савская, подрабатывающая шлюхой на грязных улицах… Мать Войны Морриган, танцующая в ночном клубе… Анубис, заправляющий похоронной конторой в глухой провинции…

Американские боги начинают войну. Но зависит исход этой войны – не от богов, а от человека!

Страшноватая детская (и не только) сказка от Нейла Гэймэна, автора «Американских богов». Премия «Хьюго-2003» в номинации «повесть».