Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS\nIN ALL OF LITERATURE.\n\nAT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL\nIS REVEALED.\n\nHannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. \n\nHe seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.\n\nHannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki.\n\nLady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France.\n\nBut Hannibal's demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn.\n\nHe discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death's prodigy.\n\nEditorial Reviews\n\nThe Barnes & Noble Review\nTwenty-five years after Thomas Harris introduced the world to one of the most memorable literary villains of all time (in 1981's Red Dragon), he revisits his signature character with a chilling prequel that chronicles the horrific childhood of Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. \n\nAs a child growing up in Lithuania, life is blissful for young Hannibal and his little sister, Mischa, living in the majestic Castle Lecter with their loving parents. Hannibal's carefree existence, however, is turned into a living nightmare when Hitler's armies invade the Soviet Union and his family is forced to flee. After more than three years surviving in the wilderness during Hitler's bloody eastern campaign, the horror of war finally finds Hannibal, and he is forced to endure a never-ending barrage of brutality: the destruction of his home, the death of his parents, the gruesome murder of his sister at the hands of starving thugs, etc. But Hannibal's life is spared when his uncle finds him and relocates him to France. Even as he matures into an educated young man, though, the haunting images of his youth compel him to seek some kind of vengeance... \n\nWith all the hype surrounding the publication of this book, there's a significant chance that the result will fall short of readers' expectations; but Harris pulls it off with a brilliantly restrained -- and powerfully moving -- story about the transformation of a sensitive, loving, intelligent boy into a cold-blooded monster. Hard-core fans of Harris's Hannibal quartet (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal) will undoubtedly enjoy this read with some fava beans and a nice Chianti... Paul Goat Allen \n- \n\nHarris's writing is assured, with elegant shifts of tense and point of view; perhaps it is the focused plot or the insistently visual style that acknowledges the inevitable movie adaptation, but simply in terms of craft, Hannibal Rising is arguably the best of his novels.\n- The Washington Post\n- Douglas E. Winter\n\nThere are images of morbid beauty here.... Harris' handling of the wartime violence is also impressive, as swift and vicious as the blitzkrieg itself."-Los Angeles Times\n"Gripping detail.... [Harris] moves the story along at an impressively fast clip."-Boston Globe\n- From the Publisher\n\nHannibal Lecter fans rejoice-his origins and ghastly early life are now available for your gore-hungry ears. Read and even performed by its author, HANNIBAL RISING is a dark, grisly yet elegant tale, which may generate some sympathy for one of fiction's most twisted killers. Harris's deep Southern accent, steeped in honeysuckle, hound dogs, molasses, and academia, is an odd match for some of the material, though his dead-on German and French accents (the story is set in the late days of WWII and concerns Lecter's childhood) redeem the recording from becoming a sonorous song of the South. One can't say Harris overplays or underplays; he delivers a creditable performance that does justice to his modern macabre classic. D.J.B. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine\n- FEB/MAR 07 - AudioFile
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Published by: Random House Publishing Group: , 2006
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ISBN: 9780385339414 | 0385339410
336 pages.
Book Condition: Very Good
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