description: Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical headman. But if the bold and undoable are what's called for, Moist's the man for the job -- to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every being, human or otherwise, requires: hope.
language: English
title: Going Postal
titlecomplete: Going Postal (Discworld, #33)
characters: Stanley Howler, Moist von Lipwig, Adora Belle Dearheart, Havelock Vetinari, Mr. Pump, Reacher Gilt, Tolliver Groat
genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Adult, High Fantasy, Humor, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 120577
places: Ankh-Morpork, Discworld
series: Discworld - Industrial Revolution, Discworld, Discworld - Moist von Lipwig
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Geffen Award
category: Best Translated Fantasy Book, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Tähtifantasia Award, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Turtleback Books