James Magnuson

Young Claus (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Before Santa Claus was Santa Claus, he was a boy, and this is his story. Young Claus is an origin story and a fable for both adults and children, in the tradition of The Little Prince and The Last Unicorn. Young Lars Claus loses his father in a logging accident and, with his mother and grandmother, has to move to a strange land in the Far North, a land of exiles, outcasts, and survivors. Here he encounters a school where the children only laugh at the misfortunes of others; where no one has ever seen a tree; where small, bizarre tomten are imprisoned beneath a fish-liver-oil factory; and where his widowed mother is courted by the malevolent Mayor Wolfpaw. This is a wild romp of a book that soars into the skies and plunges deep beneath the permafrost. It is a book filled with marvels and ghosts, a book where Lars, with the aid of invisible helpers, will learn to carve; where he will discover sorrows as deep as his own, and eventually, the healing powers of gifts. It charts the journey of a boy beset by grief who will, after many trials, fashion a vision of generosity that will encompass the entire world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: TCU Press
• Altersempfehlung: ab 10 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780875658421
• Artikelnr.: 69546356

Autorenporträt

The author of nine books, including Famous Writers I Have Known, James Magnuson lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Hester. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he is also a playwright, screenwriter, and for twenty-three years was the director of the Michener Center for Writers. He once spent Christmas in an igloo in the Arctic when the temperature was thirty-five degrees below zero.