Paperback, 240 pages
English language
Published April 30, 1999 by HarperTeen.
A collection of thirteen interconnected stories that give old fairy tales a new twist.
Soooooooooooooo schön! Geschichten über die verschiedensten Beziehungen zwischen Frauen, alten und jungen, in bekannten Märchen formuliert und diese damit überraschend angenehm interpretiert. Musste mehrmals heulen, so schön wars.
Das einzige was echt störend war, war dieses andauernde "weiße Haut" als Schönheitsmerkmal, das war ärgerlich :/
I was obsesed fairy tale lover in my childhood, but when I got older it gradually got harder for me to re-read and still enjoy the characters they had and messages they conveyed. This book ties toghether both my childhood dreamy feelings about magic and tales with my contemporary expectations of how "a sane character" shoud act for me not to want to throw book out of the windows.
Favorite story: Tale of the Voice.
I wanted to turn the book over and start reading it again. What I liked most was how the stories brought me to edge of knowing what to expect and then delivered something else. Which made me realize (again and again) that the things I've been taught to expect are culturally ingrained and more often than not, lame.
