Inkdeath

Inkdeath / Cornelia Funke ; English translation by Anthea Bell ; read by Allan Corduner. -- New York : Listening Library, p2008.

16 sound discs (19 hr., 46 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Sequel to: Inkspell

"Final tale in the Inkheart trilogy"--Container.

Unabridged.

Compact discs.

ISBN: 9780739363003

1. Books and reading – Fiction. 2. Death – Fiction. 3. Fantasy fiction.

833.914

In the aftermath of the disastrous attack on the Castle of Night, in a city occupied by hostile forces, Orpheus is struggling to find a way to bring his hero Dustfinger back to life. He hopes that the bookbinder, Silvertongue who was mortally wounded, and so close to death that the White Women, the daughters of death, came to take him, will be able to bring them close to Orpheus. He wants to bargain with them. But Death sets its own conditions for Silvertongue, and they are quite different from the ones that Orpheus so desperately wants.

Allan Corduner’s narration meets the high standard set by Lynn Redgrave’s reading of Inkheart and Brendan Fraser’s reading of Inkspell. Funke’s well-drawn characters give verisimilitude to her fantasy novel set in a fantasy novel. One that can be reached and changed by the most skillful of oral readers. In addition to a marvelous adventure yarn she gives a thoughtful portrait of death and the prods the reader to wonder about the nature of reality.