Gretel and the dark
By: Eliza Granville
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780241146453; 9780241967355
Subjects: Imagination; Girls; Kunstmärchen; Fiction; Englisch; Roman; Fairy tales; Psychoanalysis and fairy tales; Psychoanalysts
Description: Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved, she claims to have no name, no feelings - to be, in fact, not even human. Intrigued, Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance. Years Later, in Germany, we meet Krysta. Krysta's Papa is busy working in the infirmary with the 'animal people', so little Krysta plays alone, lost in the stories of Hansel and Gretel, the Pied Piper and more. And when everything changes and the real world around her becomes as frightening as any fairy tale, Krysta finds that her imagination holds powers beyond what she coulc ever have guessed... As the shadows and echoes between them multiply, it becomes clear that these two narratives are the interwoven threads of one much bigger story, which scours the darkest, most shameful places of twentieth-century history and reveals - in a dizzying fianl twist - a path back out to the light.