Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...
Thief of Time
Thief of Time
Synopsis
The Auditors of Reality have commissioned a clockmaker to build the first truly perfect clock — one that will stop time entirely. The History Monks, keepers of time itself, send their most unlikely operative, Lobsang Ludd, to prevent it. Meanwhile Susan Sto Helit is a schoolteacher dealing with very strange children, and a fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse has retired to make chocolate. The fifth and final Death sub-series novel, and Pratchett's most elaborate treatment of time as a philosophical problem.
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Susan Sto HelitProtagonist
Death's granddaughter, now a schoolteacher of unusual children, whose supernatural heritage she keeps rigorously suppressed until events make suppression impossible.
Lobsang LuddSupporting
A young thief and History Monk novice whose unusual relationship with time makes him the only person who can stop the perfect clock.
Jeremy ClocksonSupporting
A clockmaker of genius who has been commissioned to build something that should not exist — a perfect clock. His obsession and innocence make him dangerous.
Lu-TzeSupporting
The History Monks' most senior operative — who presents himself as an elderly sweeper. Lobsang's mentor and one of the series' great comic sages.
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Thief of timeUnknown, 2001
324 pages
HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97800601995621st ed.5 editions available
