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Book

Rock crystal

Call Number

  • FICTION STIF (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : New York Review Books, [2008]

Physical Description

x, 76 p. ; 21 cm.

Summary

Two children descend from the Alps after a visit with their grandparents only to take a wrong turn and find themselves lost on a glacier, with the snow falling and the night closing in.

This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence, but is implicit with the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. This quasi-fairy tale speaks of village life in the high mountains, but is also a parable of belief and faith. "Rock Crystal" is a Christmas story and a story about the heart of the ice, the crystal.

Notes

Reprint of edition published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1945.

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