Briar Rose -

Jane Yolen

Tor Teen

2016

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780765382948

A masterful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is both "heartbreaking and heartwarming" (Booklist) available in trade paperback for the first time

Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. A journey that will lead her to unspeakable brutality and horror. But also to redemption and hope.

In Yolen's graceful, historically sensitive retelling of the German folktale of Briar Rose, better known to Americans as the Sleeping Beauty story, the fable is set amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II. Confronting the deeply tragic events of the Holocaust, Yolen employs lyrical prose and rich characterizations to communicate a tale of good and evil, light and darkness, hope and despair.