Лучшие книги Джорджа Хагена

Знакомьтесь - это Ламенты, безалаберное семейство, которое носит по миру в поисках идеальной страны, но находят лишь тайны, беды и любовь. Говард - вечный мечтатель, у его жены Джулии пылкое сердце, старший сын Уилл - печальный мыслитель, а близнецы Маркус и Джулиус - сорвиголовы с буйной фантазией. Ламенты путешествуют с континента на континент, повсюду чувствуют себя неприкаянными, но чувство юмора, стойкость и верность друг другу помогают им держаться на плаву. Их жизнь - трагедия, помноженная на комедию, их путешествия - череда смешных и печальных происшествий, их ждут потери и находки, слезы и смех. В таких людей, как Ламенты,…

When a maternity ward nurse mixes up a pair of newborns, Will (named for his fortitude) finds himself as part of the eccentric Lament family. "Laments travel!" is their motto, and—why not? Ever in search of greener pastures, the idealistic father drags his family from Southern Rhodesia in the mid-1950s to the Persian Gulf, England, and finally suburban America. Will laments their rootlessness: "To be a Lament was to be a perpetual stranger." No matter where they go, they fail to find the happiness they so desperately seek. Only when they leave British colonialism behind does "family" come to mean something.

A tangle of ingenious riddles, a malevolent necklace called a torc, and flocks of menacing birds: these are just some of the obstacles that stand between Gabriel and his father, Adam Finley, who has vanished from their Brooklyn brownstone. When Gabriel rescues an orphaned baby raven named Paladin, he discovers a family secret: Finleys can bond with ravens in extraordinary ways. Along with Paladin and three valiant friends, Gabriel sets out to bring his father home. They soon discover that Adam is being held captive by the evil demon Corax—half man, half raven, and Adam’s very own disgraced brother—in a foreboding netherworld of birds called Aviopolis. With help from his army of ghoulish minions, the valravens, Corax is plotting to take over the land above, and now only Gabriel stands in his way.