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Rock Crystal (Paperback, Main)
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Rock Crystal (Paperback, Main)
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List price R378
Loot Price R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
You Save R66 (17%)
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Seemingly the simplest of stories--a passing anecdote of village
life-- Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable
suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann
praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the
most secretly daring and the most strangely gripping narrators in
world literature" is among the most unusual, moving, and memorable
of Christmas stories. Two children--Conrad and his little sister,
Sanna--set out from their village high up in the Alps to visit
their grandparents in the neighboring valley. It is the day before
Christmas but the weather is mild, though of course night falls
early in December and the children are warned not to linger. The
grandparents welcome the children with presents and pack them off
with kisses. Then snow begins to fall, ever more thickly and
steadily. Undaunted, the children press on, only to take a wrong
turn. The snow rises higher and higher, time passes: it is deep
night when the sky clears and Conrad and Sanna discover themselves
out on a glacier, terrifying and beautiful, the heart of the void.
Adalbert Stifter's rapt and enigmatic tale, beautifully translated
by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore, explores what can be found
between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day--or on any night of the
year.
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