03273cam a2200337 4500 521385361 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062684400 006268440X B01N9ZRNBG Amazon d3ed2e81-c611-4dd8-8370-387dd8ecbb81 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3148605 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Maguire, Gregory. Hiddensee [Libby] : A Novel. William Morrow, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2410kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2391kB. Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. Mythology. HTML:<p><strong>The author of the beloved New York Times bestseller Wicked 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 carves him.</strong><br /></p> <p>Hiddensee: An island of white sandy beaches, salt marshes, steep cliffs, and pine forests north of Berlin in the Baltic Sea, an island that is an enchanting bohemian retreat and home to a large artists' colony— a wellspring of inspiration for the Romantic imagination . . .</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:30:24. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d3ed2e81-c611-4dd8-8370-387dd8ecbb81&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d3ed2e81-c611-4dd8-8370-387dd8ecbb81&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d3ed2e81-c611-4dd8-8370-387dd8ecbb81&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)