White As Snow - Brossura

Lee, Tanith

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312875495 ISBN 13: 9780312875497

Casa editrice: Tor Books, 2001

Riassunto

In a novel-length tale of dark fantasy based on the fairy tale "Snow White," Arpazia and her unwanted daughter, Coira, conceived in violence during the sacking of her Arpazia's father's castle, are lured into the woods by the elder gods, who are seeking to restore their worship in a magical land in which a new religion threatens to transform life for everyone. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Tanith Lee has won multiple World Fantasy Awards, including the 2013 World Fantasy Award Life Time Achievement Award, and she was the first woman to win the August Derleth Award, which she received for her novel Death's Master. Her books include the Tales from the Flat Earth series and The Birthgrave Trilogy for adults, and The Claidi Journals series of children's fantasy books. She has written more than 250 short stories. She lives in England.

Tanith Lee has won multiple World Fantasy Awards, including the 2013 World Fantasy Award Life Time Achievement Award, and she was the first woman to win the August Derleth Award, which she received for her novelDeath's Master. Her books include the Tales from the Flat Earth series and The Birthgrave Trilogy for adults, and The Claidi Journals series of children's fantasy books. She has written more than 250 short stories. She lives in England.

Product Description:

"Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . ." So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called “ the Angela Carter of the fantasy field” — a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning it into a dark and sensual drama full of myth and magic. Arpazia is the aging queen who paces the halls of a warlord’ s palace. Cold as winter, she has only one passion— for the mysterious hunter who courts the outlawed old gods of the woodland. Coira is the princess raised in the shadow of her mother’ s hatred. Avoided by both her parents and half forgotten by her father’ s court, she grows into womanhood alone . . . until the mirror speaks, and blood is spilled, and the forest claims her. The tragic myth of the goddess Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, stolen by the king of the underworld, is woven together with the tale of Snow White to create a powerful story of mothers and daughters and the blood that binds them together, for good or ill. Black queen. White maid. Royal huntsman. Seven little folk who live in the forest. Come inside, sit by the fire, and listen to this fairy tale as you’ ve never heard it told before. "Once upon a time there was a mirror, and a girl as white as snow. . . ."

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• Editore: Tor Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312875495
• ISBN 13: 9780312875497
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320