The release date for the English version of 'The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear' by
Walter Moers is Aug 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The first thirteen and a half of Captain Bluebear's life is described as being spent in the enigmatic continent of Zamonia, where danger lurks around every turn, water flows uphill, and intelligence is treated like an infectious sickness.
A grizzly deer has twenty-seven years to live. "I will describe fifteen of them in this book, but I won't discuss the remaining ones," the epic adventure's narrator, Walter Moers, declares. "How do the Minipirates fare? What about the Mountain Maggot, the Troglotroll, the Babbling Billows, the Spiderwitch, and the Hobgoblins? My story is one of last-minute escapes, hair's width, undying love, and fatal peril." Greetings from the wonderful realm of Zamonia, home to a diverse cast of remarkable people. It's a place of fantastical madness and incredible adventure, cunning satire and epic fantasy, all mixed together, flipped, and beautifully drawn by the writer.