Anansi Boys is a fantasy novel by English writer Neil Gaiman.
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12 Facts About Anansi Boys
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Anansi Boys was published on 20 September 2005 and was released in paperback on 1 October 2006.
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Anansi Boys is the story of Charles "Fat Charlie" Nancy, a timid Londoner devoid of ambition, whose unenthusiastic wedding preparations are disrupted when he learns that his father has died in Florida.
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Spider returns that night, stricken with grief that Anansi Boys had died and that he had been thoughtless enough not to notice.
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None are willing to help the son of the trickster Anansi Boys, who had embarrassed them all at times in their lives.
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Once, Anansi Boys reveals, the animal god Tiger owned all stories, and as a result, all stories were dark, violent and unhappy.
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Anansi Boys tricked Tiger into surrendering the ownership of stories to him, forever allowing stories to involve cleverness, skill and often humour rather than strength alone.
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The possession by Tiger makes Grahame Coats vulnerable to attacks from other spirits and Maeve Livingstone, having found Grahame Coats with the aid of Anansi Boys's ghost, eliminates Coats in the real world and, satisfied, moves on to her afterlife.
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Anansi Boys is put constantly under pressure by Rosie's mother to have children, but never does.
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Old Anansi Boys, resting comfortably in his grave, watches his two sons approvingly as he contemplates resurrecting himself in 20 or 25 years.
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Anansi Boys won the Locus, Mythopoeic, YALSA ALEX, and British Fantasy Awards in 2006.
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