Hannibal Rising

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: William Heinemann
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 323 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Hannibal Lecter Emerges From The Nightmare Of The Eastern Front, A Boy In The Snow,mute,with A Chain Around His Neck.

Publishers Description: He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last, the evolution of his evil is revealed. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal'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. Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal.With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France. But Hannibal's demons visit him and torment him.When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death's prodigy.

ISBN: 9780434014088