Barbara Comyns: The Juniper Tree
The Juniper Tree
Buch
- New York Review of Books, 01/2018
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781681371313
- Bestellnummer: 6703852
- Umfang: 192 Seiten
- Gewicht: 199 g
- Maße: 203 x 123 mm
- Stärke: 15 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 23.1.2018
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
A modern reimagining of a classic fairy tale by one of most bewitching, idiosyncratic British writers of the twentieth century.Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn't quite catch, and her once pretty face is disfigured by the scar she acquired in a car accident. Friendless and without family, she's recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and a cruel and indifferent mother. But she shares a quality common to Barbara Comyns's other heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. Before too long, Bella has found not only a job but a vocation; not only a place to live but a home and a makeshift family. As Comyns's novel progresses, the story echoes and inverts the Brothers Grimm's macabre tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bella's hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of the happiness of others?