The Book Eaters

Dean, Sunyi

HARPER/COLLINS

Book Eaters

About the Author\nSunyi Dean is an autistic author of fantasy fiction. The Book Eaters is her debut novel. Originally born in the States and raised in Hong Kong, she now lives in Yorkshire with her children. When not reading, running, falling over in yoga, or rolling d20s, she sometimes escapes the city to wildswim in lonely dales.\n"I devoured this."―V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue\nAn International Bestseller 
An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022 
A BookPage Best Book of 2022 
A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee\nOut on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.\nDevon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon―like all other book eater women―is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories.\nBut real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger―not for books, but for human minds.

The Book Eaters (International Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Tor Books

"I devoured this."--V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue An International Bestseller An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022 A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022 A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon--like all other book eater women--is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger--not for books, but for human minds.

Tor Trade

En los pá ramos de Yorkshire, la joven Devon se crio con una dieta estricta a base de cuentos de hadas y advertencias oscuras sobre lo que les sucede a los que desobedecen a la Familia Fairweather, uno de los linajes má s antiguos de los Devoradores de Libros. Al pasar a la edad adulta, debe enfrentarse a la vida de opulencia, matrimonios concertados y maternidad forzada para la que ha sido preparada.Pero cuando descubre que su hijo es un Devorador de Mentes, una excepcional variante de los de su clase que debe alimentarse de mentes humanas en lugar de libros, para evitar que su familia lo convierta en un monstruo, Devon se convertirá en un monstruo aú n má s implacable para protegerlo. Y aniquilará a cualquiera que se interponga en su camino.

Los devoradores de libros (Spanish Edition)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Gran Travesia

Los devoradores de libros

Teen & Young Adult

The Book Eaters (Korean Edition)

Will Book

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