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The Stolen Child

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor Keith Donohue is the Director of Communications for the grant-making arm of the National Archives in Washington! D.C. He has written for the New York Times and the Washington Post and is the author of the novel Angels of Destruction. Klappentext Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped by fairy changelings living in the dark forest near his home - ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by encroaching modern life. As he grows older the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place. "A welcome addition to the field of contemporary fantasy...sparklingly quirky. wistfully elegiac...Overall it is a gently redemptive parable about becoming oneself" Scotland on Sunday "Keith Donohue evokes the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder. The Stolen Child is unsentimental and vividly imagined. I enjoyed it immensely" -- Audrey Niffenegger "A remarkably deep and strange read" Arena "Remarkably accomplished" Guardian "Utterly absorbing...Impressive...Beautiful...A luminous and thrilling novel about our humanity" Washington Post Zusammenfassung Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped by fairy changelings living in the dark forest near his home - ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by encroaching modern life. As he grows older the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place.

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Authors Keith Donohue
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 01.03.2007
 
EAN 9780099490593
ISBN 978-0-09-949059-3
No. of pages 336
Dimensions 129 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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