'It's a book about many things - love, snow, god, poisoned sausages...but mostly it's a celebration of storytelling itself. Strange and wry and funny and beautifully drawn.'
Mark Haddon

Winner of the Best Book Award at the 2014 British Comic Awards

Winner of the Best Book Award at the 2014 British Comic Awards Readers! This book is not a real encyclopedia!It is an epic work of fiction, detailing the many tales and adventures of one lonely storyteller, on a quest for Enlightenment and True Love. This book contains many stories, big and small, about and pertaining to the following things: Gods, monsters, mad kings, wise old crones, shamans, medicine men, brothers and sisters, strife, mystery, bad science, worse geography, and did we already mention true love?Critics are saying it is probably the best thing since sliced bread. Maybe even since bread knives.

Vorwort
'It's a book about many things love, snow, god, poisoned sausages...but mostly it's a celebration of storytelling itself. Strange and wry and funny and beautifully drawn.'
Mark Haddon

Winner of the Best Book Award at the 2014 British Comic Awards

Autorentext
Isabel Greenberg is a London based illustrator and writer. She is the author of four acclaimed graphic novels, including The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, which won the Best Book category at the British Comic Awards, and the Eisner award-nominated Young Hag. Her graphic novel The One Hundred Nights of Hero (2017) has been adapted into a film directed by Julia Jackman. She is also the illustrator of several children's books and a lecturer at Kingston school of art. Her fifth book, Confinement, will be published in 2028.

Klappentext

Winner of the Best Book Award at the 2014 British Comic Awards
Readers! This book is not a real encyclopedia!

It is an epic work of fiction, detailing the many tales and adventures of one lonely storyteller, on a quest for Enlightenment and True Love. This book contains many stories, big and small, about and pertaining to the following things: Gods, monsters, mad kings, wise old crones, shamans, medicine men, brothers and sisters, strife, mystery, bad science, worse geography, and did we already mention true love?

Critics are saying it is probably the best thing since sliced bread. Maybe even since bread knives.

Zusammenfassung
This book contains many stories, big and small, about and pertaining to the following things: Gods, monsters, mad kings, wise old crones, shamans, medicine men, brothers and sisters, strife, mystery, bad science, worse geography, and did we already mention true love?Critics are saying it is probably the best thing since sliced bread.