Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781399701532
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton


Description:
THE FIRST ADULT NOVEL BY THE CARNEGIE PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF JUNK

'A spirited retelling... witty and insightful.' i PAPER

'His prose is electrical, crackling with a mischievous charge.' BUZZ MAGAZINE

'Told with wit [and] verve... it's a book that exerts a curious charm.' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Burgess recounts Loki's genius . . . with great gusto, pulling together many tales into one sometimes beautifully lyrical masterwork.' SFX MAGAZINE

'a mischievous, unpredictable and clever book that breathes new life into an already fascinating character and godly race.' CULTUREFLY

Step into the ancient fir-tree forests of Scandinavia and bear witness to legends as epic as those of the Greeks and the Romans.

Melvin Burgess revolutionised children's literature with the infamous cult novels Junk and Doing It. In his first adult novel, Loki, he breathes new life into Norse myths.

Starting with the Norse creation myths, the trickster god Loki takes the reader on a wild ride through Norse mythology, from the time the gods - the founders of Asgard - defeated races of monsters, and hurtling through famous stories, including Odin hanging himself on the World Tree, the theft of the corrupting gold ring and the murder of Baldr, the god of love and the Sun. This narrative may seem familiar enough at first, but the reader should beware.

Born within the heart of a fire in the hollow of a tree-trunk, Loki arrives in Asgard as an outsider. He is a trickster, an unreliable nar