Empire of the Ants - Hardcover

Werber, Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553096133 ISBN 13: 9780553096132

Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1998

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Book by Werber Bernard

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Hailed as a masterpiece by the Times of London, a novel evokes the hidden world of an ant empire run from the basement of a Paris apartment, into which the apartment's new owner vanishes along with his family.

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stunning international bestseller in the tradition of Watership Down but with a dark, original twist. Unique, daring, and unforgettable, it tells the story of an ordinary family who accidentally threaten the security of a hidden civilization as intelligent as our own--a colony of ants determined to survive at any cost....

Jonathan Wells and his young family have come to the Paris flat at 3, rue des Sybarites through the bequest of his eccentric late uncle Edmond. Inheriting the dusty apartment, the Wells family are left with only one warning: Never go down into the cellar.

But when the family dog disappears down the basement steps, Jonathan follows--and soon his wife, his son, and various would-be rescuers vanish into its mysterious depths.

Meanwhile, in a pine stump in a nearby park, a vast civilization is in turmoil. Here a young female from the russet ant nation of Bel-o-kan learns that a strange new weapon has been killing off her co

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0553096133
• ISBN 13: 9780553096132
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262