The Stolen Child - Softcover

Donohue, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400096537 ISBN 13: 9781400096534

Verlag: Anchor, 2007

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"Utterly absorbing . . . a luminous and thrilling novel about our humanity." --Washington Post"A wonderful, fantasy-laden debut . . . so spare and unsentimental that it's impossible not to be moved." --Newsweek "The book gains unexpected force as the plots converge... it culminates in a torrent of emotion." --The New York Times

Reseña del editor:

“I am a changeling–a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own. . . .”The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age seven by a band of wild childlike beings who live in an ancient, secret community in the forest. The changelings rename their captive Aniday and he becomes, like them, unaging and stuck in time. They leave one of their own to take his place, an imposter who must try–with varying success–to hide his true identity from the Day family. As the changeling Henry grows up, he is haunted by glimpses of his lost double and by vague memories of his own childhood a century earlier. Narrated in turns by Henry and Aniday, The Stolen Child follows them as their lives converge, driven by their obsessive search for who they were before they changed places in the world. Moving from a realistic setting in small-town America deep into the forest of humankind’s most basic desires and fears, this remarkable novel is a haunting fable about identity and the illusory innocence of childhood.

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• Verlag: Anchor
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1400096537
• ISBN 13: 9781400096534
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336