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(3.7) | Keine | "Once Rudyard Riding Wenceslas saw to his lands, his children and the people under his rule with great and loving care. But now the melancholy Eighth Duke of West Redding does nothing but pine for his dear, deceased wife Elva. And he prepares for the approaching day when a miraculous, hand-crafted flying machine will carry him deep into the heart of the weald - a mysterious and impenetrable wood with but a single edge and one entrance - where he believes his lost beloved waits." "So begins...or, rather, continues...the tale of good Wenceslas, his heirs and his ancestors - a great disaster of a family fated to eternally repeat the fatal mistakes of preceding generations. For even as the Duke plunges from the sky into the dark, foreboding forest, Destiny's wheel is taking a tragic, inevitable turn. And with a new bride-to-be and her many-times dead troll-hag mother in tow, Wenceslas will return to a world devastatingly altered - carrying a dread curse into his household that will propel his young daughter toward her preordained future in a mirror-land on the far side of the weald." "What follows is an adventure strange, sensuous and fantastic - a story of magic, dreams and folly, of binding, unspoken promises and obligations of blood, if not love. It is a distinctly adult fable both timeless and true...and as biting as a frigid weald wind that chills the dead and the living as well."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (mehr) |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf EnglischKeine ▾Buchbeschreibungen "Once Rudyard Riding Wenceslas saw to his lands, his children and the people under his rule with great and loving care. But now the melancholy Eighth Duke of West Redding does nothing but pine for his dear, deceased wife Elva. And he prepares for the approaching day when a miraculous, hand-crafted flying machine will carry him deep into the heart of the weald - a mysterious and impenetrable wood with but a single edge and one entrance - where he believes his lost beloved waits." "So begins...or, rather, continues...the tale of good Wenceslas, his heirs and his ancestors - a great disaster of a family fated to eternally repeat the fatal mistakes of preceding generations. For even as the Duke plunges from the sky into the dark, foreboding forest, Destiny's wheel is taking a tragic, inevitable turn. And with a new bride-to-be and her many-times dead troll-hag mother in tow, Wenceslas will return to a world devastatingly altered - carrying a dread curse into his household that will propel his young daughter toward her preordained future in a mirror-land on the far side of the weald." "What follows is an adventure strange, sensuous and fantastic - a story of magic, dreams and folly, of binding, unspoken promises and obligations of blood, if not love. It is a distinctly adult fable both timeless and true...and as biting as a frigid weald wind that chills the dead and the living as well."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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Once Rudyard Riding Wenceslas saw to his lands, his children and the people under his rule with great and loving care. But now the melancholy Eighth Duke of West Redding does nothing but pine for his dear, deceased wife Elva. And he prepares for the approaching day when a miraculous, hand-crafted flying machine will carry him deep into the heart of the weald - a mysterious and impenetrable wood with but a single edge and one entrance - where he believes his lost beloved waits.
So begins...or, rather, continues...the tale of good Wenceslas, his heirs and his ancestors - a great disaster of a family fated to eternally repeat the fatal mistakes of preceding generations. For even as the Duke plunges from the sky into the dark, foreboding forest, Destiny's wheel is taking a tragic, inevitable turn. And with a new bride-to-be and her many-times dead troll-hag mother in tow, Wenceslas will return to a world devastatingly altered - carrying a dread curse into his household that will propel his young daughter toward her preordained future in a mirror-land on the far side of the weald. | |
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Duke Rudyard Wencelas still grieves for his wife decades after her death, and ventures into the mysterious wood to the East of his great halls. The wood is rumored to be endless, and in it, he hopes to find his dead wife...But the dead have their own plans, and they are hungry for the life of the living. When the duke returns from his journey, he brings with him a young woman who will send his own children fleeing, in their turn, through the wood, to find the strange mirror world that lies on the other side.
The reader, too, is drawn into this dreamlike world of winter darkness where the characters are relentlessly relive the fates of those who have come before, where every person has his double and an attempt to travel beyond the boundaries of the known only brings one back to his origins.
At the heart of this story is the haunting fairy tale of the maiden whose brothers are turned into ravens. Hazel captures the essential atmosphere of the tale, the lingering dark fears of the shadow that past griefs may cast over a family, the threats a new wife may encounter. It is filled with wonderful details, some drawn from folklore, many given his own original touch, all left for the reader to discover. He does not offer explanations, however: The story remains mysterious even at the end, it retains a pleasantly impenetrable quality which invites us to return to the book again and again and wonder over it, as with the best fairy tales.