The acclaimed new novel from the author of the The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and
comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic. One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay’s cramped New York bedroom, his arduous and nerve-wracking escape
from Prague finally achieved - with the help of his mentor, the master illusionist Kornblum. But little does he realise that this uneasy first meeting is the start of an extraordinary
friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. For Sam, Joe’s formidable artistic skills are a chance to liberate them both from lives as inventory clerks at the Empire Novelties
Incorporated Company. Together, they create a comic strip called The Escapist, its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world with his Golden Key. The
Escapist makes them their fortune and their name, but, as the situation worsens in Europe, Joe can only think of one thing. How can he effect a real-life escape, and free his family from the
tyranny of Hitler? Michael Chabon’s exceptional new novel is a thrilling tight-rope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy, and confirms his position as one of the most inventive and
daring of contemporary American writers. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons. Their story, which ranges from
the heady heights of the American Dream to the desperation and grief of the Second World War, and which journeys from New York and Czechoslovakia to the Arctic Circle, will live on in the mind
of every reader long after the final page is turned.
