Hansel & Gretel

£14.99

Simon Armitage turns ‘Hansel & Gretel’ into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a 21st-century story, whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger, war and flight, a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems.

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Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger, war and flight, a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems.

Text and illustration fuse beautifully to summon a nightmarish vision that nonetheless contains humour and humanity and the possibility of a more hopeful future to come.

Additional information

Weight 540 g
Dimensions 21 × 21.1 × 1.5 cm
Author

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

112

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K