EAN: 9780063398344

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

The New York Times bestseller and basis for the #1 smash hit movie starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande With millions of copies in print around the world Gregory Maguire’s  Wicked  is established not only as a commentary on our time but as one of the great fantasy novels to revisit for years to come.  Wicked  relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel   The Wonderful Wizard of Oz while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced fantastically real and supremely entertaining political fantasy novel Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination.  Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl Elphaba is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still Elphaba is smart and by the time she enters Shiz University she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices souls and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba green and wild and misunderstood is determined to protect the Animals-a fight for Animal rights that means combating the mysterious Wizard even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.  Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication the novel has inspired the blockbuster Broadway musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism mythopoeic fantasy and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency Maguire’s Wicked is a fairy tale retelling as unique as its green-skinned witch.  What turns a smart misunderstood girl into the Wicked Witch of the West?

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