The Sad Tale Of The Brothers Grossbart

By: Jesse Bullington

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Paperback | 1 December 2009 | Edition Number 1

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464 Pages

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3 x 12.9 x 19.7

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What happens when the Brother's Grimm team up with Quentin Tarantino and Irvine Welsh? Diabolical carnage of the most grotesque and disturbing kind - but funny too, right, in a sick kind of way? Welcome to the imagination of Jesse Bullington.

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart is not for the weak of constitution. Hegel and Manfred Grossbart are two of the most wretched, dislikeable but fascinating characters you will read this year. Travelling across plague-ravaged Europe on a grave-robbing expedition to 'Gyptland', the twin brothers corrupt everyone that has the misfortune to cross their path. Along the way their philosophical musings and twisted moral perspective will appal and delight you in equal measure.

This is the most exciting kind of debut novel - a book that announces an author with a fresh new style and who is unafraid to take his readers in new, dangerous directions. It's not perfect and it's definitely not for everyone but if you love your horror gruesome, your heroes morally corrupt and your humour dark and sharp, then you cannot go past The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart.

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A moody, grim and thoroughly engaging tale of philosophical grave-robbers on the run in Medieval Europe.

In the plague-wracked and devil-haunted darkness of Medieval Europe, an elite few enjoy opulent lives while the majority eke out a miserable existence in abject poverty. Hungry creatures stalk the deep woods and desolate mountains, and both sea and sky teem with unspeakable horrors. For those ill-fated masses not born into wealth, life is but a vicious trial to be endured before the end of days.

Hegel and Manfried Grossbart could give a toss. Being of low birth means little, after all, when the riches of the mighty wait just inside the next crypt. The grave-robbing twins know enough about crusading to realise that if one is to make a living from the dead, what better destination than the fabled tomb-cities of Egypt?But the Brothers Grossbart are about to discover that all legends have their truths, and worse fates than death await those who would take the red road of villainy...

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A remarkable novel...brilliantly written - Jeff VanderMeer

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