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Tales of innocence and experience : an exploration

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New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2003.

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Status Request for on-site use Request scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	FormatText	AccessUse in library	Call numberPR6056.I46 Z476 2003	Item locationOff-site

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"Tales of Innocence and Experience is an exploration of the relationship between a grandmother, renowned novelist Eva Figes, and her granddaughter as a second baby is about to be born. Alive to the special sweetness of this relationship, Figes also explores the darker side of childhood - how in fairy tales such as 'Snow White, ' 'Little Red Riding Hood, ' and 'Hansel and Gretel, ' difficult emotions like jealousy, anger, and fear of abandonment are called up and transformed by the storyteller's art." "When the little girl begins asking innocent questions about her grandmother's own childhood, she unwittingly opens a door into history. We learn the tale of the author's privileged Berlin childhood, which was brutally shattered when her family fled to England in 1939, leaving her grandparents behind. Returned by this act of retelling to the forest of the past, Figes finds she must confront the demons that have haunted her since, as a thirteen-year-old, she came to understand how those beloved grandparents died."--Jacket.

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