by Mervyn Peake (Author)
In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy. But there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 05 Feb 1998
ISBN 10: 0749394870
ISBN 13: 9780749394875
Book Overview: The third of the bestselling Gormenghast trilogy.
Prizes: Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.