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From the author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller WICKED, the magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade...Gregory Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life of the mysterious toy maker named Drosselmeier who carves him.Hiddensee: An island of white sandy beaches, salt marshes, steep cliffs, and pine forests north of Berlin in the Baltic Sea, an island that is an enchanting bohemian retreat and home to a large artists' colony-- a wellspring of inspiration for the Romantic imagination...Having brought his legions of devoted readers to Oz in WICKED and to Wonderland in AFTER ALICE, Maguire now takes us to the realms of the Brothers Grimm and E. T. A. Hoffmann-- the enchanted Black Forest of Bavaria and the salons of Munich. HIDDENSEE imagines the backstory of the Nutcracker, revealing how this entrancing creature came to be carved and how he guided an ailing girl named Klara through a dreamy paradise on a Christmas Eve. At the heart of Hoffmann's mysterious tale hovers Godfather Drosselmeier-- the ominous, canny, one-eyed toy maker made immortal by Petipa an

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Author

Gregory Maguire

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062684387

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.32 / 5 (77 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14