金石堂「有些奇蹟必須發生在黑暗中。」
──教授阿卜杜‧納赫蒂博士
魯莫是一隻倍受費恩哈亨寵愛的小小沃泊亭格，他想有一天成為查莫寧最偉大的英雄，用他會講話的劍──呂溫暢打遍地上和地下兩個迥然不同的查莫寧世界；本故事充滿冒險、刺激和令人難忘的人物，讀者將陪伴魯莫成長及茁壯，學會所有意想不到的驚奇能力，並偕同魯莫找到每條沃泊亭格心目中的銀線，儲備種種披荊斬棘的智慧與技能，進攻地下世界......
★本書中譯本《魯莫和黑暗中的奇蹟》由正中書局出版
Set in the land of Zamonia, this exuberant, highly original fantasy from Walter Moers features an unlikely hero. Rumo is a little Wolperting - a domesticated creature somewhere between a deer and a dog - who will one day become the greatest hero in the history of Zamonia. Armed with Dandelion, his talking sword, he fights his way through the Overworld and the Netherworld. He meets Rala, a beautiful Wolperting female; Urs of the Snows, who thinks more of cooking than of fighting; Gornab the Ninety-Ninth, the demented king of Netherworld; Professor Ostafan Kolibri, who goes in search of the Non-Existent Teenies; Professor Abdullah Nightingale, inventor of the Chest-of-Drawers Oracle; and, worst luck, the deadly Metal Maiden.
Astonishingly inventive, amusing, and engrossing, Rumo is a captivating story from the unique imagination of Walter Moers. Illustrated with the author's own line drawings and filled with humor, this rambunctious novel will delight fans tired of the usual epic fantasy. The comparisons are many - Douglas Adams, Lewis Carrol, J.K. Rowling, Dr. Seuss, R. Crumb - but Moers is clearly an original. Long live Zamonia!
作者簡介
瓦爾特．莫爾斯（Walter Moers）
1957年誕生於德國西部，為德國著名的連環畫畫家和電影劇本作家。1999年出版長篇小說《藍熊船長的奇幻大冒險》，在歐美轟動一時，同年以此書榮獲「德國格林文學獎」。為德國當代最重要的兒童文學作家，現在生活在德國漢堡。
歡迎造訪納赫蒂教授的查莫寧網路學校，網址是：www.zamonien.de.
