Title: Anansi Boys

Title: Anansi Boys Title Record # 177551
Author: Neil Gaiman
Date: 2005-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: American Gods
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: After the death of his mother a man learns that he has a brother, which leads to the discovery that his absent father was Anansi, the trickster god; at first his routine life is disturbed by his brother's chaotic lifestyle and abilities, but then he must develop his own abilities, in order to save his brother.

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Other Titles

Translations

Year	Language	Title
2006^ⓘTranslated by Katia Bagnoli	Italian	I ragazzi di Anansi
2006^ⓘTranslated by Emma van Beest	Dutch	De Bende van Anansi
2006^ⓘTranslated by Michel Pagel.	French	Anansi boys
2007^ⓘTranslated by Karsten Singelmann.	German	Anansi Boys
2009^ⓘTranslated by Pék Zoltán	Hungarian	Anansi fiúk^?Anansi fiuk
2011^ⓘTranslated by Emilija Ferdmanaitė	Lithuanian	Anansio vaikai
2020^ⓘTranslated by Leonardo Alves	Portuguese	Os filhos de Anansi
2021^ⓘTranslated by মোঃ ফুয়াদ আল ফিদাহ.	Bengali	আনানসি বয়েজ [as by নিল গেইম্যান^?Nila Geimyana ]

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
1	2006 Locus	Best Fantasy Novel
Win	2006 BFA	August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)
Win	2006 Mythopoeic	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Nomination (as Anansi boys)	2007 Imaginaire	Roman étranger

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Anansi Boys	2005-09-00	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	0-06-051518-X	$26.95^?$: US dollar	336	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Anansi Boys	2005-09-00	Neil Gaiman	Headline Review	0-7553-0507-8	£17.99^?£: UK pound	348+ [50]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Anansi Boys	2005-09-00	Neil Gaiman	Headline Review	0-7553-0508-6	£11.99^?£: UK pound	348+ 44	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Anansi Boys	2005-09-00	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	0-06-051518-X	$26.95^?$: US dollar	336	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Anansi Boys	2005-09-20	Neil Gaiman	HarperAudio	0-06-083685-7	$34.95^?$: US dollar		audio MP3 CD^?Compact disc with mp3-encoded audio tracks	novel
Anansi Boys	2005-10-00	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins / SFBC	1197056	$14.99^?$: US dollar	306	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Anansi Boys	2006-00-00	Neil Gaiman	Headline Review	0-7553-0509-4	£7.99^?£: UK pound	457+ [13]	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Anansi Boys	2006-05-08	Neil Gaiman	Headline Review	0-7553-0509-4	£7.99^?£: UK pound	457+ [13]	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Anansi Boys	2006-10-00	Neil Gaiman	HarperTorch	0-06-051519-8	$7.99^?$: US dollar	400	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Anansi Boys	2008-02-00	Neil Gaiman	Harper Perennial	978-0-06-134239-4	$14.95^?$: US dollar	336+ 18	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Dan Hillier
Anansi Boys	2008-04-00	Neil Gaiman	HarperTorch	978-0-06-051519-5	$7.99^?$: US dollar	400	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Anansi Boys	2008-05-00	Neil Gaiman	Hill House	978-0-931771-12-5	$240.00^?$: US dollar	280	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Anansi Boys	2008-05-00	Neil Gaiman	Hill House	978-0-931771-13-2	$^?$: US dollar	280	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Anansi Boys	2009-10-13	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	978-0-06-179497-1	$4.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Anansi Boys	2010-11-11	Neil Gaiman	Headline	978-0-7553-7993-4	£5.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
American Gods / Anansi Boys	2011-00-00	Neil Gaiman	Barnes & Noble Books (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics)	978-1-4351-3213-9	$18.00^?$: US dollar	724	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Anansi Boys	2016-10-25	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	978-0-06-256433-7	$9.99^?$: US dollar	429	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Robert McGinnis
Anansi Boys	2016-11-03	Neil Gaiman	Headline	978-1-4722-3542-8	£20.00^?£: UK pound	464	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Daniel Egnéus^?Daniel Egneus
American Gods / Anansi Boys	2016-11-26	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow	978-0-06-256147-3	$25.00^?$: US dollar	724	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Jim Tierney
Anansi Boys	2019-01-00	Neil Gaiman	The Folio Society		£79.95^?£: UK pound	376	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Francis Vallejo , Francis Vallejo
The American Gods Quartet	2019-11-21	Neil Gaiman	Headline	978-1-4722-7144-0	£9.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni
Anansi Boys	2021-04-20	Neil Gaiman	William Morrow / HarperCollins	978-0-06-307073-8	$16.99^?$: US dollar	347	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Henry Sene Yee
Anansi Boys	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	Headline Review	0-7553-0509-4	£7.99^?£: UK pound	457+ [13]	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Anansi Boys	date unknown	Neil Gaiman	HarperTorch	978-0-06-051519-5	$7.99^?$: US dollar	400	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Romie Stott (2005) in Reflection's Edge, October 2005
Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2005) in Locus, #538 November 2005
Review by Jayne Dearsley (2005) in SFX, November 2005
Review by Iain Emsley (2005) in Interzone, #201 November-December 2005
Review by Steve Vernon (2006) in Cemetery Dance, #54, 2006
Review by Charles de Lint (2006) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2006
Review by Matthew Scott Winslow (2006) in Deep Magic, #46, March 2006
Review [Dutch] by Sophia Drenth (2006) in Holland-SF 2006, #2
Review by Gahan Wilson (2006) in Realms of Fantasy, April 2006
Review by Jasmine Johnston (2006) in Strange Horizons, 17 April 2006
Review [French] by Org (2006) in Bifrost, #43
Review [Dutch] by Anton van der Vloet (2006) in Holland-SF 2006, #5
Review by Dorman T. Shindler (2006) in Subterranean, Issue #3 , reprinted in:
Subterranean, Issue #3 (2006)
Review by Ian R. MacLeod (2011) in Fugitive Essays & Furtive Reviews
Review by Eric the Unbeliever (2014) in Holdfast, #2
Review [German] by Christian Endres (2019) in phantastisch!, #73
Review by Tom Feller (2019) in Tightbeam, April 2019