num_pages: 227
description: Louis Drax is a boy like no other. He is brilliant and strange, and every year something violent seems to happen to him. On his ninth birthday, Louis goes on a picnic with his parents and falls off a cliff. The details are shrouded in mystery. Louis's mother is shell-shocked; his father has vanished. And after some confusion Louis himself, miraculously alive but deep in a coma, arrives at Dr. Pascal Dannachet's celebrated coma clinic…Full of astonishing twists and turns, this is a masterful tale of the secrets the human mind can hide.
language: English
title: The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
titlecomplete: The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
genres: Magical Realism, Fantasy, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Suspense, Family, Thriller, Contemporary, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 5402
publisher: Bloomsbury USA