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...
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Synopsis
Four inches tall, the Nomes have been living in a department store for so many generations that most of them believe the Store is the entire universe and Arnold Bros (est. 1905) is God. When a group of Nomes from Outside arrives with news that the Store is about to be demolished, Masklin — a Nome who has lived in the harsh Outside world — must challenge everything his people believe in order to save them. The first novel in the Bromeliad Trilogy, a story about the difficulty of changing minds that have never had to change.
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MasklinProtagonist
A Nome from Outside who has lived by his wits in the real world and now faces the task of making his people believe in a reality larger than the Store.
GrimmaSupporting
A young Nome who learns to read and becomes one of the most important members of the group — though the society around her does not always agree.
AngaloSupporting
A Nome fascinated by the Store's mechanical world, who becomes essential to the plan of escape.
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TruckersPaperback, Aug
209 pages
Corgi BooksISBN: 97805525510835 editions available
