EAN: 9780062684370

HIDDENSEE - GREGORY MAGUIRE KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9780062684370

Produktinformationen zur 9780062684370