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The Ocean at the End of the Lane se découvre via sa couverture américaine ! Le roman est attendu pour juin 2013 en langue anglaise. Ci-dessous, retrouvez par ailleurs un résumé plus conséquent de ce qui peut nous attendre dans ce roman mettant en scène une petite fille mais pas forcément réservé aux enfants, loin de là.
Rappelons que Neil Gaiman sera l'invité d'honneur des Utopiales de Nantes la semaine prochaine !

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They say you cannot go home again, and that is as true as a knife . . .”

A man returns to his childhood village seeking comfort in memories of his youth and the friend who long ago transformed his life.

Once upon a time in a rural English town, an eleven-year-old girl named Lettie Hempstock shows a little boy the most marvelous, dangerous, and outrageous things beyond his darkest imagination. But an ancient power has been disturbed, and now invasive creatures from beyond the known world are set loose. There is primal horror here, and menace unleashed—within the boy’s family and from the forces that have gathered to consume it.

Determined to have their way, these otherworldly beings will destroy a meddling little boy if he dares to get in the way. It will take calm, courage, and the cleverness of the extraordinary Hempstock women—Lettie, her mother, and her grandmother, to keep him alive. But his survival will come at an unexpected cost. . . .

Storytelling genius Neil Gaiman delivers a whimsical, imaginative, bittersweet, and at times deeply scary modern fantasy about fear, love, magic, sacrifice, and the power of stories to reveal and to protect us from the darkness inside—a moving, terrifying, and elegiac fable for every age.