Author: Eliza Granville
Year: 2014
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Historical fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Young adult, War/Military
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9780241146453
9781594633959
0241146453
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A dark, distinctive and addictively compelling novel set in fin-de-siecle Vienna and Nazi Germany--with a dizzying final twist.
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 world around her becomes as frightening as any fairy tale, Krysta finds her imagination holds powers beyond what she could have ever guessed. . . .
Eliza Granville has had a life-long fascination with the enduring quality of fairytales and their symbolism, and the idea for Gretel and the Dark was sparked when she became interested in the emphasis placed on these stories during the Third Reich.
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