It has been more than two hundred years since Bookholm was destroyed by a devastating fire, as told in Moers's The City of Dreaming Books. Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, hailed as
Zamonia�� greatest writer, is on vacation in Lindworm Castle when a disturbing message reaches him, and he must return to Bookholm to investigate a mystery. The magnificently rebuilt city has
once again become a metropolis of storytelling and the book trade. Mythenmetz encounters old friends and new denizens of the city��nd the shadowy ��nvisible Theater.��Astonishingly inventive,
amusing, and engrossing, this is a captivating story from the wild imagination of Walter Moers.
