In a world where tiny nomes live unnoticed in a department store, Masklin and his band bring alarming news: the store will soon be destroyed. With only twenty-one days to escape, the nomes must unite and think beyond their small world. As they embark on a daring quest for survival, they uncover secrets about their past and face challenges that will test their courage and ingenuity. Will they find safety and discover their true origins before time runs out? Dive into this thrilling adventure of wit and wonder.
From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series comes a comic and insightful trilogy about a race of four-inch-high heroes trying to make sense of a human-size world.In a world whose seasons are defined by Christmas sales and Spring Fashions, hundreds of tiny nomes live in the corners and crannies of a human-run department store. They have made their homes beneath the floorboards for generations and no longer remember–or even believe in–life beyond the Store walls.Until the day a small band of nomes arrives at the Store from the Outside. Led by a young nome named Masklin, the Outsiders carry a mysterious black box (called the Thing), and they deliver devastating news: In twenty-one days, the Store will be destroyed.Now all the nomes must learn to work together, and they must learn to think – and to think BIG.Part satire, part parable, and part adventure story par excellence, master storyteller Terry Pratchett’s engaging trilogy traces the nomes’ flight and search for safety, a search that leads them to discover their own astonishing origins and takes them beyond their wildest dreams.Praise for the Bromeliad trilogy: “Witty, funny, wise, and altogether delightful.”–Locus MagazineMeet more of Sir Terry Pratchett’s tiny-but-fierce heroes in the Discworld novel The Wee Free Men!
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