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183 pages ; 21 cm;"Tales of Innocence and Experience is an exploration of the relationship between a grandmother, renowned novelist Eva Figes, and her granddaughter as a second baby is about to be born. Alive to the special sweetness of this relationship, Figes also explores the darker side of childhood - how in fairy tales such as 'Snow White, ' 'Little Red Riding Hood, ' and 'Hansel and Gretel, ' difficult emotions like jealousy, anger, and fear of abandonment are called up and transformed by the storyteller's art." "When the little girl begins asking innocent questions about her grandmother's own childhood, she unwittingly opens a door into history. We learn the tale of the author's privileged Berlin childhood, which was brutally shattered when her family fled to England in 1939, leaving her grandparents behind. Returned by this act of retelling to the forest of the past, Figes finds she must confront the demons that have haunted her since, as a thirteen-year-old, she came to understand how those beloved grandparents died."--Jacket;committed to retain 20160630"Tales of Innocence and Experience is an exploration of the relationship between a grandmother, renowned novelist Eva Fig

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Author

Figes, Eva

Publisher

New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781582342597

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.96 / 5 (17 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13