John Hearne Bücher
John Edgar Colwell Hearne, gebürtiger Montrealer jamaikanischer Abstammung, war ein Autor, dessen Werke aus seinen reichen Lebenserfahrungen schöpften. Sein Schreiben war geprägt von einer tiefen Auseinandersetzung mit Identität und dem postkolonialen Leben, oft unter Rückgriff auf sein eigenes multidimensionales Erbe. Hearne verwebte meisterhaft literarische Traditionen mit lebhaften karibischen Bildern und schuf kraftvolle und nachdenkliche Erzählungen. Sein Prosastil wird für seine rhythmische Qualität und seine aufschlussreichen Beobachtungen der menschlichen Verfassung gelobt.
'Missing Roald Dahl? Need a book where bad kids are just bad and they get their comeuppance? This is the book for you.' - Read and Reviewed Absurdly enjoyable dark adventure about a boy's mission to stop his evil sisters terrorising the town Indigo McCloud's sister Peaches is every adult's favourite child: pretty, golden-haired, polite and charming. But the children of Blunt know better: Peaches and her three sisters are a gang of bullies who will stop at nothing to get their way. This is the story of Indigo's battle to stop his sisters. Leaping across the rooftops of Blunt, he tries to keep one step ahead of their wicked schemes -but he has to tangle with 437 hungry geese, an avalanche of toilets, curry farts, bungling policemen, vicious eels, a pig in a witch's hat, a three legged spider with a toilet brush and a dangerous villain in odd socks ...
A fast-paced extra-terrestrial adventure: Martin Ryan discovers that his parents are aliens. When they disappear, he and his friends must find them and prevent the destruction of the human race.
