![]() She handles a difficult subject with finesse in a book that should be required reading for anyone who is tempted to dismiss fantasy as a frivolous genre. By interpolating Gemma's vivid and imaginative story into the larger narrative, Yolen has created an engrossing novel. ![]() ![]() To discover the facts behind Gemma's story, Rebecca travels to Poland, the setting for the book's most engrossing scenes and its most interesting, best-developed characters. Rebecca Berlin, a young woman who has grown up hearing her grandmother Gemma tell an unusual and frightening version of the Sleeping Beauty legend, realizes when Gemma dies that the fairy tale offers one of the very few clues she has to her grandmother's past. Yolen takes the story of Briar Rose (commonly known as Sleeping Beauty) and links it to the Holocaust-a far-from-obvious connection that she makes perfectly convincing. ![]() A journey that will lead her to unspeakable brutality and horror. ![]() This is one of the series's most ambitious efforts, and only a writer as good as Yolen ( Sister Light, Sister Dark ) could bring it off. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemmas astonishing claim:I am Briar Rose. Windling's Fairy Tale series has produced several excellent fantasy novels inspired by classic fairy tales. Jane Yolen - Briar Rose: A Novel of the Holocaust, Paperback - Briar Rose is a historically sensitive retelling of Sleeping Beauty set amid forests. ![]()
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