Edward Carey je spisovatel a ilustrátor, jehož díla se vyznačují jedinečnou vizuální a narativní souhrou. Jeho tvorba často zkoumá neobvyklé postavy a světy, přičemž jeho ilustrace nejen doplňují text, ale někdy ho i záměrně rozporují, což vytváří fascinující napětí. Careyho literární svět je plný fantazie a detailní propracovanosti, která čtenáře vtáhne do svých originálních příběhů. Jeho přístup k psaní a kreslení je osobitý a odráží jeho hluboké porozumění pro vypravěčské umění.
V této naprosto originální, fantasmagorické knize sleduje Edward Carey životní kroky Marie Grosholtzové, maličké Švýcarky, která se dostala do revoluční Paříže a nakonec se proměnila v legendární Madame Tussaud. Tento barvitý příběh o revoluci, paměti, ztrátě a lásce vás zavede do tří zemí, setkáte se se ztracenými dětmi, ztracenými rodiči, opičími duchy, krejčovskými pannami, králem, princeznami i doktory a s mužem, který prochodil celou Paříž. Budete se smát, plakat i kulit oči překvapením.
Uprostřed Velkého smetiště nedaleko Londýna se tyčí obrovský, pochmurný dům rodiny Iremongerů, plný spletitých chodeb a schodišť. Klan, který ho obývá, je více než prapodivný: jeho členové vybudovali své bohatství doslova na odpadcích, mají zvláštní jména, svérázné zvyky a rituály a žení a vdávají se výhradně mezi sebou. Hlavní hrdina Klod mezi ostatní příliš nezapadá: je churavý, choulostivý a navíc sirotek, ideální terč šikany krutých bratranců. Klod má ovšem jednu zvláštní schopnost: Slyší předměty mluvit. A poslední dobou věci začínají šeptat a špitat čím dál víc. Jako by se schylovalo k něčemu neblahému. Jedné noci narazí Klod ve Smetištejně na novou, zvídavou a odvážnou služebnou Lucy a společně se rozhodnou přijít záhadě děsivého rodinného sídla na kloub. Odhalují jedno temné tajemství za druhým a brzy se ocitnou v ohrožení života. Mají ještě šanci vyváznout, nebo je Smetištejn pohltí jako všechny, kdo se mu kdy pokusili vzepřít?
Author and illustrator Edward Carey presents a paean to connection at a time of isolation: a year of daily lockdown drawings posted on social media from his home in Texas.
The city of Entralla - along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City - is not somewhere you are likely to have visited. Only one guidebook to the place exists, despite its historic landmarks and the considerable civic pride of its inhabitants. Alva and Irva are identical twin sisters, and Entralla is their home. By nature, Alva is an explorer, and longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom every step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together and cannot survive without each other. It is when Irva refuses to leave the house at all that the major work of their lives begins: Alva wanders the city streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reporting her findings to Irva, who painstakingly recreates a miniature Entralla. In Alva and Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination; the twins are mesmerizing heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation.
Foulsham, London's great filth repository, is bursting at the seams. The walls that keep the muck in are buckling, rubbish is spilling over the top, back into the city that it came from. In the Iremonger family offices, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger broods: in his misery and fury at the people of London, he has found a way of making everyday objects assume human shape, and the real people into objects.Abandoned in the depths of the Heaps, Lucy Pennant has been rescued by a terrifying creature, Binadit Iremonger, more animal than human. She is desperate and determined to find Clod. But unbeknownst to her, Clod has become a golden sovereign and 'lost'. He is being passed as currency from hand to hand all around Foulsham, and yet everywhere people are searching for him, desperate to get hold of this dangerous Iremonger, who, it is believed, has the power to bring the mighty Umbitt down.But all around the city, things, everyday things, are twitching into life...
"Alva and Irva" takes readers on a captivating journey through an imaginative city, exploring themes of longing, belonging, and the perspectives that shape our understanding of distance and the worlds we inhabit.
The extraordinary climax to the gothic Iremonger trilogy.
Edward Carey's debut is a novel of immense originality - a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.
"In the small Tuscan town of Collodi, a lonely woodcarver longs for the companionship of a son. One day, "as if the wood commanded me," Giuseppe--better known as Geppetto--carves for himself a pinewood boy, a marionette he hopes to take on tour worldwide. But when his handsome new creation comes magically to life, the woodcarver screams at him . . . and the boy, Pinocchio, leaps from his arms and escapes into the night. Though he returns the next day, the wily boy torments his father, challenging his authority and making up stories--whereupon his nose, the very nose his father carved, grows before his eyes like an antler. When the boy disappears after one last fight, the father follows a rumor to the coast and out into the sea, where he is swallowed by agreat fish--and consumed by guilt, as he hunkers in the creature's belly awaiting the day when he will reconcile with the son he drove away."--Publisher
Set in 1901 England, this story follows young Edith Holler, who feels trapped in her family's dilapidated theater in Norwich. Inspired by local legends, she decides to write a play about Mawther Meg, a figure associated with a gruesome local delicacy. When her father becomes engaged to the enigmatic Margaret Unthank, heir to the Beetle Spread fortune, Edith must defend her father, the theater, and her creative ambitions from Margaret's ominous influence. The narrative blends humor, vivid characters, and enchanting illustrations, exploring themes of control and truth.