From the unique imagination of Walter Moers comes another fantastical journey into Zamonia. This captivating story is astonishingly inventive, amusing, and engrossing. Rumo is a little Wolperting - a domesticated creature somewhere between a deer and a dog - who will one day become the greatest hero in the history of Zamonia. Armed with Dandelion, his talking sword, he fights his way across Overworld and Netherworld, two very different realms chock-full of adventures, dangers, and unforgettable characters:

• Rala, the beautiful girl Wolperting who cultivates a hazardous relationship with death;
• Urs of the Snows, who thinks more of cooking than of fighting;
• Gornab the Ninety-Ninth, the demented king of Netherworld;
• Professor Ostafan Kolibri, who goes in search of the Non-Existent Teenies;
• General Ticktock, the evil commander of the Copper Killers;
• Ushan DeLucca, the finest and most weather-sensitive swordsman in Zamonia;
• Volzotan Smyke, the corpulent Shark Grub;
• Rolv of the Forest, a Wolperting who can pass through the White Fire;
• Yggdra Syl, the guardian of the Nurn Forest and its talkative animals;
• Professor Abdullah Nightingale, inventor of the Chest-of-Drawers Oracle;
• and, the worst of luck, the deadly Metal Maiden.