Hannibal Rising
Author(s): Thomas Harris
He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last, the evolution of his evil is revealed. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki. Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal.With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France. But Hannibal's demons visit him and torment him.When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death's prodigy.F
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A guaranteed No 1 bestseller - the story of Hannibal Lecter's childhood and early years, from the mega-bestselling author of Hannibal and The Silence of the Lambs. 20050217
'Quite simply this is the best-written thriller to dominate the market in years...in the wit, erudition and sheer style of the eponymous Dr Lecter, we have not only a world-class villain but a literary evocation of the diabolical to compare with Goethe and Gogol. Honestly' The Times 'Harris has emerged triumphant... The last two decades of the 19th century popular fiction were dominated by Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. A century on, suspense literature has achieved their equals in Thomas Harris and Hannibal Lecter' Guardian 'There is not a single ugly or dead sentence here... Lecter is a superbly seductive creation' Sunday Times"
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General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.633
- : 01 December 2006
- : 242mm X 164mm X 44mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Thomas Harris
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : 813.54
- : 336
