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Stephen Kingin uusi romaani julkaistaan syksyllä – kansikuva ja juonikuvaus on jo paljastettu

26.01.2022 08:17 Muropaketin toimitus

Stephen King ei sammaloidu: viime vuonna kauhulegendalta ilmestyi parikin teosta, eikä jalkoja nosteta työpöydälle tänäkään vuonna.

Stephen Kingin uusi romaani on nimeltään Fairy Tale, ja se julkaistaan Yhdysvalloissa syyskuun 6. päivänä.

Kirjaa on kuvailtu ennakkoon seuraavasti:

“Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours.

“Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is 17, he meets a dog named Radar and his aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.

“Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.

“King’s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy – and his dog – must lead the battle.”

King says of the inspiration behind his latest novel, “I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. I saw a magic sundial that could turn back time. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”

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