num_pages: 377
description: Arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses -- until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position -- and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt. But it says on the building neither rain nor snow nor glo m of ni t ... Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what's called for, he'll do it -- in order to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every human being (not to mention troll, dwarf, and, yes, even golem) requires: hope.
language: English
title: Going Postal
titlecomplete: Going Postal (Discworld, #33)
characters: Moist von Lipwig, Adora Belle Dearheart, Havelock Vetinari, Stanley Howler, Tolliver Groat, Reacher Gilt, Mr. Pump
genres: Audiobook, High Fantasy, Novels, Science Fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Humor
ratings_count: 120564
places: Discworld, Ankh-Morpork
series: Discworld - Moist von Lipwig, Discworld - Industrial Revolution, Discworld
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: Harper