![]() ![]() Part science fiction, part fairy tale, part myth, part epic, the book is a satire on all these genres and so constantly satirises itself. Again and again, Moers confounds our expectations as the narrative twists and turns, travels backwards and forwards in time. By the end of the book, he has expended exactly half of his 27 lives. Thus Bluebear comes to the end of his first life and embarks on his second. Then, when he outgrows their ship to such an extent that he is in danger of sinking it, they abandon him on an island with a bottle of seaweed juice and a loaf of seaweed bread. They rescue him and teach him about knots and waves, and that a good white lie is often considerably more exciting than the truth. Some Minipirates find a baby bear with blue fur inside a walnut shell floating on the ocean towards a giant whirlpool. 'Within the first 15 pages I was carried away by the sheer craziness of it all. This is fortunate, because our hero is forever avoiding disaster by a paw’s breadth. Unlike cats, which have only nine lives, bluebears have twenty-seven. A delightfully illustrated cult novel, literary satire and epic adventure. Captain Bluebear is a bear with blue fur, a creature as unique as the fantastic adventures he undergoes. ![]()
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