The Hazel Wood - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Melissa Albert is the founding editor of the Barnes & Noble Teen Blog and the managing editor of BN.com. She has written for McSweeney's! MTV! and more. She lives with her husband in Prospect Heights! Brooklyn! where she reads! swims! and experiments in the kitchen. Klappentext To retrieve her mother! Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood! then into the heart of the world where her grandmother's stories began--and find out why her own story went so wrong.

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New York Times bestseller
Seven starred reviews
Indies' Choice Book Award Finalist
New York Times Notable YA Book of 2018
Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of the Year
#1 ABA Indie Next Pick
ABA Indies Introduce Selection
Junior Library Guild Selection
ALA's Best Fiction for Young Adults List
Seventeen Best YA Book of the Year
The Guardian Best Children's Book of the Year
Observer Best Children's Book of the Year
Entertainment Weekly Top 10 YA Novel of the Year
Bustle Best YA Book of the Year
BookPage Best Book of the Year
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Indigo Best Book of the Year
Books-a-Million Best Book of the Year
Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
Publishers Weekly Flying Start
Seattle Public Library "10 Young Adult Books We Love 2018"
Romantic Times Seal of Excellence Winner
Longlisted for the Hugo/Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

"The Hazel Wood starts out strange and gets stranger, in the best way possible. Albert seamlessly combines contemporary realism with fantasy, blurring the edges in a way that highlights that place where stories and real life convene, where magic contains truth, and the world as it appears is false, where just about anything can happen, particularly in the pages of a good book. It's a captivating debut." -The New York Times Book Review

"An original and imaginative fairy tale: thrilling, fascinating, and poignant in equal measure. Grade: A-." -Entertainment Weekly, Best New Books

"Insidiously beautiful, this is the opposite of escapist fantasy; it is a story about the imagination's power to loose atrocity into the (mostly) law-abiding confines of the real." -The Guardian

"A darkly brilliant story of literary obsession, fairy-tale malignancy, and the measures a mother will take to spare her child." -The Wall Street Journal, Best Children's Book of the Year

"An eerie, assured first novel. Albert occasionally entwines the haunting tales of the grandmother's book through this mesmerizing narrative, creating a fantasy as lush and twisty as ivy." -The Washington Post

"One of those rare young adult fantasy novels that holds a self-contained world in only a few hundred pages. If the novel's heroine is a teenage girl, then her story will appeal to readers of all ages, with its intrigue and strange fairy tale magic and very grown up writing." -Esquire

"A can't-miss, dark, and creepy new take on fairy tales that will have you glued to the page until the very end." -BuzzFeed

"This extremely creepy, wondrously original and beautifully written book conjures up a dark, bloody netherworld of fairytales and enchants and enthralls from the first sentence to the final page." -The Buffalo News

"A contemporary fantasy that dwells in an atmospheric, intertwining world of terrifying circumstances; a breathtaking dive into the magic and importance of story in one's identity. 'Story is the fabric of the Hinterland,' one of the residents tells Alice. Another says, stories 'create the energy that makes this world go. They keep our stars in place.' If this is so, Albert's exquisite wordsmithing and story weaving have kept the stars aloft for a new generation of readers." -Shelf Awareness, starred review

"Alice's sharp-edged narration and Althea's terrifying fairy tales, interspersed throughout, build a tantalizing tale of secret histories and magic that carries costs and consequences. There is no happily-ever-after resolution except this: Alice's hard-won right to be in charge of her own story." -Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Highly literary, occasionally surreal, and grounded by Alice's clipped, matter-of-fact voice, The Hazel Wood is a dark story that readers will have trouble leaving behind. The buzz for this debut is deafening, and the fact that the film adaption is already in the works doesn't hurt." -ALA Booklist, starred review

"Simultaneously wondrous and horrific, dreamlike and bloody, lyric

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Albert
• Publisher: Macmillan USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781250192196
• ISBN: 978-1-250-19219-6
• No. of pages: 359
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 208 mm x 22 mm
• Series: The Hazel Wood
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Fiction > Narrative literature