The Hazel Wood
Autor Melissa Alberten Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mar 2019 – vârsta până la 18 ani
Imaginați-vă momentul de lectură independentă în care granița dintre camera de zi și paginile cărții începe să se estompeze. Remarcăm în The Hazel Wood o trecere subtilă de la realismul unei vieți petrecute pe drumuri la atmosfera densă și neliniștitoare a unei lumi construite din basme crude. Alice, eroina de șaptesprezece ani, ne ghidează printr-o narațiune unde ghinionul nu este doar o coincidență, ci o forță vie, iar moștenirea familiei sale se dovedește a fi o poartă către un tărâm supranatural periculos. Structura narativă este una de tip „călătorie a eroului” reinterpretată, unde magia nu este sclipitoare, ci aspră și imprevizibilă. Cititorii adolescenți care au îndrăgit The Darkest Part of the Forest de Holly Black vor regăsi aici aceeași fascinație pentru creaturile magice care nu respectă regulile umane și atmosfera de pădure străveche, însă într-un context mult mai personal, centrat pe relația mamă-fiică. Reținem că Melissa Albert nu se ferește de tonuri întunecate, oferind o perspectivă matură asupra basmelor clasice. Această abordare a fantasticului se aliniază perfect cu restul operei autoarei. Dacă în antologia At Midnight: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined ea explorează diverse fațete ale poveștilor tradiționale, în The Hazel Wood creează un univers propriu, Hinterland, care este explorat mai departe în continuarea The Night Country. Stilul este unul evocator, transformând lectura într-o experiență senzorială unde fiecare pagină ascunde o aventură pe cât de minunată, pe atât de teribilă.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 125014793X
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 136 x 208 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Flatiron Books
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte adolescenților (14+) și tinerilor adulți care caută o poveste fantasy profundă, departe de clișeele magiei binevoitoare. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra puterii poveștilor de a modela realitatea. Este lectura ideală pentru cei care vor să exploreze teme precum identitatea, secretele de familie și curajul de a înfrunta necunoscutul, totul într-un stil literar șlefuit și captivant.
Despre autor
Melissa Albert este o autoare de succes, cunoscută la nivel internațional pentru abilitatea sa de a infuza realismul contemporan cu elemente de basm întunecat. Prin debutul său cu The Hazel Wood, ea a reușit să redefinească genul fantasy pentru tineri, punând accent pe atmosfera psihologică și pe complexitatea personajelor feminine. Interesul său constant pentru folclor și mitologie se reflectă în toate lucrările sale, inclusiv în coordonarea antologiilor de povestiri precum At Midnight, consolidându-și poziția de voce distinctă în literatura tânără contemporană.
Descriere scurtă
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away-by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: "Stay away from the Hazel Wood."
Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother's cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began-and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.
Don't miss the New York Times bestselling sequel to The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, out now, or Tales from the Hinterland, coming January 12, 2021!
Notă biografică
Melissa Albert is the founding editor of the Barnes & Noble Teen Blog and the managing editor of BN.com. She has written for Time Out Chicago, SparkLife, MTV and McSweeney's.
Recenzii
The Hazel Wood kept me up all night. I had every light burning and the covers pulled tight around me as I fell completely into the dark and beautiful world within its pages. Terrifying, magical, and surprisingly funny, it's one of the very best books I've read in years.
Thoroughly, creepily captivating, with surprises I never saw coming! Such a refreshing and beautifully written inversion of the classic fairytale-inspired story.
This book will be your next obsession. Welcome to the Hazel Wood, where bad luck is a living thing, princesses are doomed, and every page contains a wondrously terrible adventure - it's not safe inside these pages, but once you enter, you may never want to leave.
A WINDING, CREEPY, INSIDIOUSLY DELICIOUS NOVEL. UTTERLY SPECTACULAR
THIS BOOK NEEDS A WARNING LABEL. CAUTION: SINGLE-SITTING READ. Once you start, you cannot stop.
If you like DARKNESS and MURDER, strong family ties and light romance, you should probably get ready for this book to mess you up in the best way possible.
IMAGINE BEING ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE TO READ HARRY POTTER . . . That's how it feels to read The Hazel Wood in manuscript form.It's Inception + The Magicians + Alice in Wonderland + Night Film, plus humor and warmth and heart.
With dark fairy tale elements woven into a thrilling story, The Hazel Wood had me under its spell from beginning to end. Magic crackled on every page.
A beautiful, terrifying, astonishing and strange story that reads as though Angela Carter has been sucked into a Grimm fairy tale, this book is a wise and wonderful read for fairy tale fans.
A dark and magical modern take on age-old fairy tales.
A beguiling mix of contemporary thriller and dark fantasy, coupled with stylish, sharp prose, makes this a dangerously addictive debut.
a darkly enchanting debut
Albert is a natural storyteller who writes with the confidence of an old hand
A bewitching, elegant blend of contemporary thriller and dark fantasy
Simultaneously enticing and fearsome, much like the Hazel Wood of the title ... insidiously beautiful
This eerie debut YA novel puts such a terrifying twist on classic bedtime stories, you'll not sleep a wink.
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One of The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2018!
Fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and The Children of Blood and Bone have been getting lost in The Hazel Wood...
"The Hazel Wood kept me up all night. I had every light burning and the covers pulled tight around me as I fell completely into the dark and beautiful world within its pages. Terrifying, magical, and surprisingly funny, it's one of the very best books I've read in years". -Jennifer Niven, author of All The Bright Places
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Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels.
But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
Her mother is stolen, by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world from her grandmother's stories.
Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOOD.
To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began . . .
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"This book will be your next obsession. Welcome to the Hazel Wood, where bad luck is a living thing, princesses are doomed, and every page contains a wondrously terrible adventure - it's not safe inside these pages, but once you enter, you may never want to leave." - Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval
"Realism and fantasy blue in this strange and bewitching tale" The Observer
Melissa Albert has created a world as dark, twisted and magical as Alice in Wonderland or Harry Potter. Will you escape the Hazel Wood?