![]() ![]() ![]() From her grandmother she inherited a silver ring, a photograph, and the traditional tale of Briar Rose: clues that will ultimately lead her to a distant land and an astonishing revelation of death and rebirth. A young American journalist is drawn to Europe and to the past as she investigates the mystery of her grandmother's life. Novi one of America's most celebrated writers tells it afresh, set this time in forests patrolled by the German army during World War 11-a tale with no guarantee of an ending that reads they lived happily ever after. an old, old tale, yet so potent that few among us do not know it today. So goes the German fairy tale of Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty. But the story of the beautiful sleeping princess, Briar Rose, went about the country so that from time to titne the King's sons came and tried to get through the thorny hedge. Around the castle there grew a hedge of thorns, which every year grew higher, and at last there was nothing more to be seen, not even the flag upon the roof. THE * FAIRY * TALE * SERIES -CREATED BY TERRI WINDLINGBRIAR ROSE~ THE + NEW * NOVEL * BY JANE YOLEN THE BRIGHT TALE )F SLEEPING BEAUTY, THE DARK TALE OF THE HOLOCAUSTTWINED TOGETHER IN A STORY YOU WILL NEVER FORGET. ![]()
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