Anansi Boys

Fat Charlie Nancy, a timid Londoner, learns at his father's funeral that the dead man was Anansi, the West African and Caribbean spider-god of stories, and that Charlie has a brother, Spider, who inherited the trickster gifts. Spider arrives, takes over Charlie's flat and his fiancee Rosie, and the two are drawn into family business among gods, a murderous employer named Grahame Coats, and the islands where their father was known. The novel is a comic fantasy about inheritance and voice: what happens when a man who cannot tell stories meets the brother who is one, and when a god's sons must settle their father's debts.

Bound in printed and multicolour image blocked black art silk. Green ribbon marker. Green image printed page edges. Multicoloured pictorial and slipcase with textured UV spot varnishing.