More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
Hiddensee: a Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker
โ Scribed by Gregory Maguire
- Book ID
- 100587503
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0062684388
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โฆ Synopsis
From the author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Wicked, the magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade . . .
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 carves him.
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 . . .
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...
โฆ Subjects
Nussknacker und Mausekoฬnig (Hoffmann, E.T.A.)
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