num_pages: 525
description: Subverting convention award-winning creators M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin pair up for an anarchic outlandish and deeply political saga of warring elf and goblin kingdoms.Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord and spy on the goblin kingdom  from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwains host the goblin archivist Werfel is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends but a series of extraordinary double crosses blunders and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them  and war for their nations. Witty mixed media illustrations show Brangwains furtive missives back to the elf kingdom while Werfels determinedly unbiased narrative tells an entirely different story. A hilarious and biting social commentary that could only come from the likes of National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson and Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin this tale is rife with thrilling action and visual humor . . . and a comic disparity that suggests the ultimate victor in a war is perhaps not who won the battles but who gets to write the history.
language: English
title: The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
publisher: Candlewick Press