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A collection of `modern traditional tales' from an acknowledged master of the genre, featuring Far North, based on an Inuit myth. In this starkly beautiful tale two women survive together in the frozen north against all odds until a stranger arrives and sets up jealousies between them. This stark love-triangle, set against an arctic landscape, has now been brilliantly translated into film by Asif Kapadia. It premiered to critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival and the London Film Festival -`full of surprises and sharp as an ice-pick' (Hollywood Reporter), `Magnificent... hypnotic... electric.' (The Times).
In this volume Sara Maitland mixes some previously published stories with eight new tales. In The Swans there is a new version of the Grimm's tale of the seven swan brothers and their sister's vow of silence; in After Life, Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, whose body was discovered to be incorruptible after his death, longs to be freed from his body on earth; Slicing the Gingerbread is a contemporary re-telling of the Hansel and Gretel story, in which two young twins who work out their sibling rivalry in a dangerous game of witches and getting lost in the forest; and in Mother of the Promise the biblical Sarah - the wife of Abraham - looks back over her extraordinary adventures and the God and the husband she has wrestled with for whole lifetime.
All these stories, formally bold and innovative, emotionally edgy and deeply imbued with a sense of location, address Sara Maitland's primary concerns about the links between beauty and terror, modernity and ritual. More than half the stories in this collection have never been published in book form, and the others are remarkably enriched by their linked associations.
Intertwining the everyday and the inexplicable to witty and disquieting effect, her wildest flights of fantasy are anchored in deep psychological understanding and vivid description,overlaid with a wickedly ironic humour.
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