EAN: 9781841599540

PULLMAN PHILIP CLOCKWORK OR ALL WOUND UP AND TH...

In The Firework-Maker's Daughter   young Lila has learned from her father almost all there is
to know about his profession-but he insists upon holding back the final secret. With the help
of her friend Chulak  Lila discovers that anyone who wants to be a true firework-maker must
face down the Fire-Fiend of Mount Merapi. It is only after Lila has set off on her quest that
Chulak discovers the other half of the secret-and without it  Lila will perish. In the company
of Hamlet  a talking white elephant  Chulak sets off to find Lila before it''s too late.  
Clockwork features an apprentice clockmaker who is tempted to sell his soul. As the townspeople
of Glockenheim gather on the eve of the annual unveiling of a new figure for the town clock 
Karl  the apprentice  confides to Fritz  a storyteller  that he has failed his task to create
one. Fritz  in his turn  has no idea how to finish the new story he has begun concocting  which
he calls "Clockwork." He begins to tell it anyway  only to see its dangerous antagonist
materialize in front of the two boys and offer Karl a Faustian pact. Real life and storytelling
merge  and destruction must be narrowly averted  in this unusual and suspenseful tale of the
power of creativity.

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