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The novellas, The Boy Who Built a Rocket Ship and The Day It Snowed Forever, immediately capture the imagination but do not rely on spectacle alone; instead, they draw their power from moral awakening, fractured trust, and the moment a child realizes the world is far more complicated, and dangerous, than it once appeared.
In The Boy Who Built A Rocket Ship, a boy worships his older brother as a mechanical genius, only to slowly uncover the real motives behind his brother's secret rebellion — a quietly devastating exploration of the loss of innocence to say something much larger about family, loyalty, and trust. Likewise, in The Day It Snowed Forever, an almost surreal climate catastrophe becomes the backdrop for an older boy discovering what adults are capable of once social norms fall away, and what he must do to protect his family because of it.
Together, these novellas are both intimate and unsettling, and speak to our present moment while remaining deeply human and character-driven.
“Reading these together, childhood innocence is not lost through one dramatic event but through a slow, unsettling recognition of who people really are, which feels like a rare and honest thing to capture in short fiction.”
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'The Boy Who Built A Rocket Ship' and 'The Day It Snowed Forever' are primarily narratives about the loss of childhood innocence. The first is the story of a young boy who worships his older brother as a mechanical genius and wants to help him in his secret revolt against the authoritarian society they are trapped in. However, he gradually learns who his older brother really is, and what the motives for his rebellion really are, and how their mother and father have struggled to include the older boy, despite his past, as part of their family. The second story is about an older boy who, with his younger brother, revels in a strange and increasingly catastrophic weather event - an interminable snowstorm brought on by the vagaries of climate change. With the snow rapidly burying the city they live in, he learns of the evil that adults unfettered from social norms are capable of, and what he must do to defend the lives of his family. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798987494042
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