Gregory Maguire: Hiddensee
Hiddensee
Buch
- A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker
- HarperCollins, 10/2018
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780062684370
- Bestellnummer: 11825276
- Umfang: 304 Seiten
- Gewicht: 335 g
- Maße: 228 x 154 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 23.10.2018
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Gregory Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life of the mysterious toy maker named Drosselmeier who carved him.Having brought his legions of devoted readers to Oz in Wicked and to Wonderland in After Alice, Maguire now takes us to the realms of the Brothers Grimm and E. T. A. Hoffmann?the enchanted Black Forest of Bavaria and the salons of Munich. Hiddensee imagines the backstory of the Nutcracker, revealing how this entrancing creature came to be carved and how he guided an ailing girl named Klara through a dreamy paradise on a Christmas Eve. At the heart of Hoffmann's mysterious tale hovers Godfather Drosselmeier?the ominous, canny, one-eyed toy maker made immortal by Petipa and Tchaikovsky's fairy-tale ballet?who presents the once and future Nutcracker to Klara, his goddaughter.
But Hiddensee is not just a retelling of a classic story. Maguire discovers in the flowering of German Romanticism ties to Hellenic mystery-cults?a fascination with death and the afterlife?and ponders a profound question: How can a person who is abused by life, shortchanged and challenged, nevertheless access secrets that benefit the disadvantaged and powerless? Ultimately, Hiddensee offers a message of hope. If the compromised Godfather Drosselmeier can bring an enchanted Nutcracker to a young girl in distress on a dark winter evening, perhaps everyone, however lonely or marginalized, has something precious to share.
Biografie
Gregory Maguire, 1954 in Albany, New York geboren, studierte Anglistik und Amerikanistik und leitete von 1979 bis 1985 das Simmons College for the Study of Children's Literature, an dem er auch als Professor Englische Literatur unterrichtete. Gregory Maguire hat rund 25 Bücher für Kinder- und Jugendliche veröffentlicht. Er hat drei Kinder adoptiert und lebt heute in der Nähe von Boston, Massachusetts. Gregory Maguire
Hiddensee
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