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Title:
Hiddensee : a tale of the once and future nutcracker
Summary:
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.
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xi, 287 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher:
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
Publication Date:
2017
ISBN:
9780062684387
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.

©2017
Call Number:
MAGUIRE
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