In this groundbreaking tour de force, Caldecott Medalist and bookmaking pioneer Brian Selznick sails into uncharted territory and takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey.



Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing.



Set fifty years...

An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopard. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!

The illustrated story begins in 1766 with Billy Marvel, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, and charts the adventures of his family of actors over five generations. The prose story opens in 1990 and follows Joseph, who has run away from school to an estranged uncle's puzzling house in London, where he must piece together many mysteries...

Hugo – sierota, zegarmistrz i złodziej – mieszka w korytarzach ukrytych w murach ruchliwego paryskiego dworca, gdzie jego przetrwanie zależy od zachowania tajemnicy i anonimowości. Kiedy jednak jego losy – niczym tryby zegarów, których dogląda – zazębiają się nagle z życiem ekscentrycznej dziewczynki uwielbiającej książki oraz zgorzkniałego starca prowadzącego na dworcu sklepik z zabawkami, jego podziemna egzystencja i największy sekret zostają zagrożone. Tajemniczy rysunek, cenny notes, skradziony klucz, mechaniczny człowiek i ukryta wiadomość od nieżyjącego...