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The Iremonger Trilogy #1-2-3
La trilogia degli Iremonger
La favola dickensiana nata dalla fantasmagoria di Edward Carey viene qui proposta in un unico volume che raccoglie l'intera trilogia, I segreti di Heap House, Foulsham e Lombra.
Clod è un Iremonger. Vive tra un mare di oggetti gettati via o smarriti che provengono da tutti gli angoli di Londra. E al centro di questo mare c'è una casa, Heap House, un insieme di tetti, torrette, comignoli, parti di edifici smantellati con i loro misteri, raccolti per tutta la città e fusi in un labirinto vivo di scale, saloni, angoli nascosti. E gli Iremonger hanno una ciascuno di loro è legato, sin dalla nascita, a un oggetto. Ma Cold ha una caratteristica può udire i sussurri degli oggetti.
"Impossibile non lasciarsi affascinare dalle immagini di Heap House e dell'Inghilterra dell'epoca vittoriana qui ricostruita." - Irene Bignardi, la Repubblica
Clod è un Iremonger. Vive tra un mare di oggetti gettati via o smarriti che provengono da tutti gli angoli di Londra. E al centro di questo mare c'è una casa, Heap House, un insieme di tetti, torrette, comignoli, parti di edifici smantellati con i loro misteri, raccolti per tutta la città e fusi in un labirinto vivo di scale, saloni, angoli nascosti. E gli Iremonger hanno una ciascuno di loro è legato, sin dalla nascita, a un oggetto. Ma Cold ha una caratteristica può udire i sussurri degli oggetti.
"Impossibile non lasciarsi affascinare dalle immagini di Heap House e dell'Inghilterra dell'epoca vittoriana qui ricostruita." - Irene Bignardi, la Repubblica
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1040 pages, Paperback
Published April 16, 2025
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About the author
Edward Carey
27 books591 followersEdward Carey is a writer and illustrator who was born in North Walsham, Norfolk, England, during an April snowstorm. Like his father and his grandfather, both officers in the Royal Navy, he attended Pangbourne Nautical College, where the closest he came to following his family calling was playing Captain Andy in the school’s production of Showboat. Afterwards he joined the National Youth Theatre and studied drama at Hull University.
He has written plays for the National Theatre of Romania and the Vilnius Small State Theatre, Lithuania. In England his plays and adaptations have been performed at the Young Vic Studio, the Battersea Arts Centre, and the Royal Opera House Studio. He has collaborated on a shadow puppet production of Macbeth in Malaysia, and with the Faulty Optic Theatre of Puppets.
He is also the author of the novels Observatory Mansions and Alva and Irva: the Twins Who Saved a City, which have been translated into thirteen different languages, and both of which he illustrated. He always draws the characters he writes about, but often the illustrations contradict the writing and vice versa and getting both to agree with each other takes him far too long. He has taught creative writing and fairy tales on numerous occasions at the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, and at the Michener Center and the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin.
He has lived in England, France, Romania, Lithuania, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, and the United States. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, which is not near the sea.
He has written plays for the National Theatre of Romania and the Vilnius Small State Theatre, Lithuania. In England his plays and adaptations have been performed at the Young Vic Studio, the Battersea Arts Centre, and the Royal Opera House Studio. He has collaborated on a shadow puppet production of Macbeth in Malaysia, and with the Faulty Optic Theatre of Puppets.
He is also the author of the novels Observatory Mansions and Alva and Irva: the Twins Who Saved a City, which have been translated into thirteen different languages, and both of which he illustrated. He always draws the characters he writes about, but often the illustrations contradict the writing and vice versa and getting both to agree with each other takes him far too long. He has taught creative writing and fairy tales on numerous occasions at the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, and at the Michener Center and the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin.
He has lived in England, France, Romania, Lithuania, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, and the United States. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, which is not near the sea.
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June 3, 2025
Un racconto gotico, grottesco e poetico che sembra uscito da un film di Tim Burton. La Trilogia degli Iremonger sorprende per la sua originalità visiva e narrativa: una saga familiare bizzarra, piena di personaggi strambi ma memorabili. Nonostante la mole, la storia riesce a tenerti incollato grazie a un equilibrio tra inquietudine e tenerezza, e lascia dietro di sé immagini vivide e un senso di malinconica bellezza.
August 25, 2025
Abbandonato dopo 400 pagine. Noioso, storia inconsistente, personaggi che non trasmettono niente, ambientazione appena accennata e che non si percepisce per niente.
September 10, 2025
such an amazing read, so fun and grotesque at the same time
December 15, 2025
I segreti di Heap House: 5/5
Foulsham: 5/5
Lombra: 5/5
Foulsham: 5/5
Lombra: 5/5
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