Mathias Malzieu

The Boy with the Cuckoo-clock Heart

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A dark and tender fairytale spiced with devilish humour from bestselling French rock star Mathias MalzieuEdinburgh, 1874. On the coldest night the world has ever seen, Little Jack is born with a frozen heart and immediately undergoes a life-saving operation. But Dr Madeleine is no conventional medic and surgically implants a cuckoo-clock into his chest. Little Jack grows up different to other children: every day begins with a daily wind-up. At school he is bullied for his 'ticking', but Dr Madeleine reminds him he must resist strong emotion: anger is far too dangerous for his cuckoo-clock heart. So when the beautiful young street-singer, Miss… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Ardizzone, Sarah (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-7011-8369-1
EAN: 9780701183691
Produktnummer: 4489310
Verlag: Random House UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Masse: H18.2 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.0 cm 236 g
Gewicht: 236

Über den Autor

Described by Iggy Pop as 'Francois Truffaut with a rock 'n' roll band', Mathias Malzieu is the lead singer of French pop group Dionysos and the genius behind the French bestseller La Mécanique du Coeur. He has written an album based on the book, and is co-director of the forthcoming animated feature film optioned by Luc Besson. Born in 1974, he grew up near Montpelier, and is currently based in Paris.