Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western Norway. It is a place they both have fond memories from, and their meeting turns out to be fateful. But is it purely coincidental that they meet…
Originally titled Children’s and Household Tales, The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales contains the essential bedtime stories for children worldwide for the better part of two centuries. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were German linguists and cultural researchers who gathered legendary folklore and aimed to collect the stories exactly as they heard them.
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is i…
Di tengah jatuhnya kekuasaan Jerman Nazi, Marianne von Lingenfels kembali ke puri keluarga suaminya yang dahulu kala berdiri tegak sebagai benteng kukuh tapi kini telah rusak seiring berlangsungnya Perang Dunia Kedua. Sebagai janda dari anggota gerakan perlawanan yang dieksekusi setelah gagal melancarkan rencana pembunuhan Adolf Hitler pada tanggal 20 Juli 1940, Marianne bertekad untuk menepati…