Cover of the book Pan's Labyrinth
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Critically acclaimed
Has film adaptation
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Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy dark fairy tales and complex fantasy narratives.

Topics InnocenceGood vs EvilCourage
MoodDark, Suspenseful, Hopeful
Female protagonist
ViolenceModerate
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This enthralling novel, inspired by the 2006 film, illustrates that fantasy is the sharpest tool to explore the terrors and miracles of the human heart You shouldn't come in here. You could get lost. It has happened before. I'll tell you the story one day, if you want to hear it. In fairy tales, there are men and there are wolves, there are beasts and dead parents, there are girls and forests. Ofelia knows all this, like any young woman with a head full of stories. And she sees right away what the Capitan is, in his immaculate uniform, boots and gloves, smiling: a wolf. But nothing can prepare her for the fevered reality of the Capitan's eerie house, in the midst of a dense forest which conceals many things: half-remembered stories of lost babies; renegade resistance fighters hiding from the army; a labyrinth; beasts and fairies. There is no one to keep Ofelia safe as the labyrinth beckons her into her own story, where the monstrous and the human are inextricable, where myths pulse with living blood ...

Language

en

Published on

07/09/2020

Pages

296

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781526609588

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