Not without risk: for every character brought into the world, someone is sent in the book. He needs Mortimer’s power: his voice can evoke characters out of books. Until they all find out it was only a diversion to help Capricorn. One night he organizes a fire show, leaving Maggie enchanted. So, while her father works, she spends a lot of time with Dustfinger. The next morning, Mortimer announces to Maggie they will go to visit her aunt, who has some old books that need to be restored. He tells Mortimer that Capricorn is looking for him the girl doesn’t understand, but her father looks very worried.
He has red, long hair and three deep scars on his face. Mortimer knows the man and lets him in: his name is Dustfinger. Maggie has no idea of who he is, nor what he is doing in the rain, so she calls her father. Since Meggie’s mother disappeared when she was a baby, she learned to read by herself at a very young age.ĭuring a stormy night, while she is reading by candlelight, she notices a man outside of their home. Despite the deep feeling, he taught her for books, Mortimer has never read a single line to his daughter. Mortimer is an expert bookbinder: as long as Meggie can remember, her father has always been fixing old volumes. It sold more than five million copies in the world and in 2008 it was released as a homonymous movie, directed by Iain Softley. Written by Cornelia Funke and published in 2003, Inkheart is the first book composing the Inkworld Trilogy. From her father Mortimer, Maggie learned the importance of books from a mysterious man who appeared out of their home, she will learn the importance of reading aloud. They are powerful arms, able to save or destroy lives.
Words have great importance, which is clear to Meggie, even if she is only thirteen. Things start becoming real when pronounced aloud.
Nothing can really exist, if there is no word to call it or describe it.
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