Eliza Granville. (2014). Gretel and the Dark. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Eliza Granville. 2014. Gretel and the Dark. Blackstone Publishing.

Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark. Blackstone Publishing, 2014.

Eliza Granville. Gretel and the Dark. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2014.

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     Eliza Granville was born in Worcestershire and currently lives in the Welsh Marches. Gretel and the Dark is her first novel.

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A captivating and atmospheric historical novel about a young girl in Nazi Germany, a psychoanalyst in fin-de-siècle Vienna, and the powerful mystery that links them together

Gretel and the Dark explores good and evil, hope and despair, showing how the primal thrills and horrors of the stories we learn as children can illuminate the darkest moments in history, in two rich, intertwining narratives that come together to form one exhilarating, page-turning read.

In 1899 Vienna, celebrated psychoanalyst Josef Breuer is about to encounter his strangest case yet: a mysterious, beautiful woman who claims to have no name, no feelings—to be, in fact, a machine. Intrigued, he tries to fathom the roots of her disturbance.

Years later, in Nazi-controlled Germany, Krysta plays alone while her papa works in the menacingly strange infirmary next door. Young, innocent, and fiercely stubborn, she retreats into a world of fairy tales, unable to see the danger closing in around her. When everything changes and the real world becomes as frightening as any of her stories, Krysta finds that her imagination holds powers beyond what she could ever have guessed.

Rich, compelling, and propulsively building to a dizzying final twist, Gretel and the Dark is a testament to the lifesaving power of the imagination and a mesmerizingly original story of redemption.

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   • content: "In Gretel and the Dark, Eliza Granville masterfully entwines two richly layered and compelling stories of two seemingly different worlds. Filled with remarkable historical detail and stunning prose, both Krysta's and Lilie's stories captivated me, and Granville kept me quickly turning the pages to discover the connection between these two girls. By turns beautiful and frightening, magical and dark, this is a novel that will stay with me for a long time to come."
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   • content: This book weaves two stories: one set in Vienna in 1899, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki; the second set in Germany in the early 1940s, narrated by Cassandra Campbell. Having two narrators helps the listener follow two plots that become entwined as the story progresses. Rudnicki deftly portrays a staid psychoanalyst with a somewhat pedantic and detached attitude who encounters a puzzling patient in Vienna. Campbell portrays a na•ve, young woman in Germany years later who lives in her imagination, which is full of dark fairy tales. Campbell's steady narration intensifies the contrasts between appearance and reality, hope and despair as she creates an understated and haunting atmosphere. J.E.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
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     October 13, 2014
     Granville's debut is a back-and-forth tale of secrets and imagination, deftly intermingling two distinct and seemingly unrelated stories of loss and redemption. A fairy tale prologue opens onto 19th century Vienna, where Herr Doktor Josef Breuer, a respected psychoanalyst, is stumped by a strange new case. A nameless and stunning young woman—Lilie, he calls her—claims not to be a girl at all, but a machine who yields no clues about her origin. Simultaneously, the story of Krysta, a pale and lonely girl some years later in Nazi-controlled Germany, unfolds. She spends her days home alone telling herself old stories while her physician father visits the mysterious zoo next door. When Krysta's reality becomes more frightening than the darkest of her fairy tales, Krysta retreats further into her imagination and begins to invent her own stories. Chapters alternate from Krysta to Lilie, and as truths shift beneath their feet, readers may feel the whiplash. Nonetheless, Granville weaves her two tales together through lush prose; her novel is both a thoroughly engaging journey into the darkest corners of humanity, as well as an illumination of the redemptive power of the imagination. And if Lilie's and Krysta's stories are any indication, it's the victors, indeed, who write history.

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A captivating and atmospheric historical novel about a young girl in Nazi Germany, a psychoanalyst in fin-de-siècle Vienna, and the powerful mystery that links them together

Gretel and the Dark explores good and evil, hope and despair, showing how the primal thrills and horrors of the stories we learn as children can illuminate the darkest moments in history, in two rich, intertwining narratives that come together to form one exhilarating, page-turning read.

In 1899 Vienna, celebrated psychoanalyst Josef Breuer is about to encounter his strangest case yet: a mysterious, beautiful woman who claims to have no name, no feelings—to be, in fact, a machine. Intrigued, he tries to fathom the roots of her disturbance.

Years later, in Nazi-controlled Germany, Krysta plays alone while her papa works in the menacingly strange infirmary next door. Young, innocent, and fiercely stubborn, she retreats into a world of fairy tales, unable to see the danger...

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