Plot Ībarat focuses on Candy Quackenbush, a teenage girl frustrated with her life in Chickentown, Minnesota. The American Library Association picked Abarat as one of its Best Books for Young Adults. By most accounts, Barker realised early that the story he wanted to tell could not be contained in one book. Barker had already completed 300 paintings before he started working on the first book. The paintings in the book are done with oils. The title image contains an ambigram, which may indicate that it's derived from the Russian word 'наоборот' meaning 'backwards'. The eponymous Abarat is a fictional archipelago which is the setting for the majority of the story. Abarat (2002) is a fantasy novel written and illustrated by Clive Barker, the first in Barker's The Books of Abarat series.
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