Een kus voor de heks
by:
Emma Donoghue (author)
ISBN:
9025422438
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Atlas
Pages no: 192
Edition language: Dutch
So I guess I knew who Emma Donoghue was before she was "cool" (i.e., pre-ROOM), since this book has been on my shelf FOREVER ... but I didn't actually read it till after I'd read her more recent stuff. I'm generally 10-20 years behind on my TBR, though, so this is not at all unusual.Having read her ...
"Climbing to the witch’s cave one day, I called out, Who were you before you came to live here? And she said, Will I tell you my own story? It is a tale of a kiss." I had heard of Emma Donoghue mostly because people kept talking about her novel Room. This, however, was the first encounter I ha...
People that love The Bloody Chamber, this is for you!Want to squeeze those good ol' fairy tales into juicy new perspectives? Emma Donoghue (well-known for the still-to-read-by-me Room) does a terrific job at this. She breaks with heternormativity and patriarchy by providing alternative readings of s...
Read it b/c it's a monthly book in a GR group. The premise is similar to CMV's Orphan's Tales as both are nested fairy tales that heavily feature cross-generation collaboration of women, while the minimalistic language reminds me more of the YA works of Francesca Lia Block. It may seem less original...
This book would have gotten 5 out of 5 but there were one or two stories that I just could not fully understand.
7 years ago
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