John Schoffstall

Half-Witch (eBook, ePUB)

a novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Set in a fantasy world of hungry goblins, powerful witches and human criminals, Half-Witch follows the unlikely friendship between Lizbet and the unpleasant sarcastic witch girl Strix on a twisted journey to rescue her father from prison.

In the world in which Lizbet Lenz lives, the sun still goes around the earth, God speaks directly to his worshippers, goblins haunt every cellar and witches lurk in the forests. Disaster strikes when Lizbet's father Gerhard, a charming scoundrel, is thrown into a dungeon by the tyrant Hengest Wolftrow.

To free him, Lizbet must cross the Montagnes du Monde, globe-girdling mountains that reach to the sky, a journey no one has ever survived, and retrieve a mysterious book. Lizbet is desperate, and the only one who can help her is the unbearable witch girl Strix.

As the two girls journey through the mountains and into the lands of wonder beyond, Lizbet discovers-to her horror-that Strix's magic is turning Lizbet into a witch, too. All while, a revolution in Heaven is brewing!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Small Beer Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618731418
• Artikelnr.: 52976768

Autorenporträt

From the Author

"There is one aspect of the novel that I have had personal involvement with, in a way. A recurrent event in this novel is human bodies being unalterably changed, including mutilation, amputation, replacement of body parts with prosthetics, destruction and remaking, etc. I am now retired, but I worked for decades as an emergency physician. In the ER, physical injury to the body, 'trauma', is a common problem. I've seen and treated a great many patients with trauma, have thought about it a lot. Trauma has an emotional effect on individuals, beyond the aspects of physical injury and pain. That emotional effect is often out of proportion with the injury. I suspect this is is related to our inner image of the 'self'. We conceive our selves to be defined in part by our physical body as we normally experience it. Injury to the body represents not just pain, disfigurement or disability, but a damage to our image of our self on a metaphysical or ontologic level. This profound unease with physical injury is something with immense emotional resonance in many people, and something I want to tap into.

At the same time, body change of a different sort can mean growth. Throughout childhood and adolescence, our bodies are constantly changing as we grow, constantly being destroyed and remade, and that change is necessary if we are to become adults. But even this positive change causes uneasiness. The distress of adolescents with the changes in their bodies is well-recognized.

In Half-Witch, body change, destruction and remaking, represents... many things, which I will let the reader figure out on their own."