Mort
Grim Reaper ( English title: Mort ) is a novel by Terry Pratchett. It is the fourth Discworld novel and the first of the sets the focus on death as the main protagonist. He was released in 1987. The title of the original Mort is also the name of the main character and also a pun on the French word " mort " which means " death " means.
German edition
Heyne, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04290-5
Action
One " anthropomorphic personification " such as death, it is virtually placed in the cradle, to be interested in the subject matter which has manifest it in the world can be. Tods interest in all aspects of the human being is its shape so inherent. In this novel, he encounters the concept of " training " and seeks an apprentice. He finds him in Mortimer, the gangly, red-headed son of an ambitious reanuellen wine - growers, so someone who now produces wine which was already drunk yesterday.
Mort is an extreme klutz. No other master craftsman wants to train him. Death has other priorities. He teaches him his "craft" and Mort 's doing quite well at first. So good that the death benefits of having a formidable deputy, to use further his studies in humans, for example, to experience the joys of dry fly - fishing.
Mort, however, is far from being consolidated in the performance of duty, his compassion and his sense of justice gives way and refuses the pretty Princess Keli to bring death. He changed the course of history and brings the whole Discworld is in danger.
As death comes to him on the ropes, wearing only conditionally added to his amusement. He punished with death Mort. When he realized how unhappy his adoptive daughter Ysabell is with this decision, it changes the reality, married the two together and sends them back to the real world.
Others
Comic version: Mort. The Discworld Comic ( Mort. The Discworld [Big ] Comic ), illustrated by Graham Higgins. Goldmann, 1995 ISBN 3-442-30636-1
Radio Drama: The Grim Reaper, Random House Audio, 2005, ISBN 3-89830-940-1, Unabridged Audiobook Download, spokesman Volker Niederfahrenhorst