The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book By Neil GaimanNobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls;

a league cup final

wrapped in lavender ribbons

A Bildungsroman

his massage-parlour clients

here are the dogs

I’m the guy who’s always standing near the doors… Drink sometime

at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia

whose opium exports to China have been blockaded by Beijing

But when her wedding night day ends in an unimaginable accident

solitary life

a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance

he can't bring himself to let her go