Rebecca asks her friend Stan, an investigative journalist who works for a historical newspaper.
Gemma’s youngest granddaughter, Rebecca Berlin, suspects that there is a real memory behind her grandmother’s bedtime story, which she has told countless times. The novel begins at home in Gemma’s Boston suburb just after the death of her grandmother. The third story, back in Massachusetts, unites the first and second. The first takes place at Gemma’s home in the present day and the second in World War II Poland at a concentration camp called Chelmno, or “the castle. In 1993, the novel was nominated for the Nebula Award, one of the highest honors in fiction.
Gemma is a repeat storyteller, and the plot cycles back and forth through time as she recalls the story over many nights. Much of the story is told in fragments by an old woman named Gemma as she relays it to her three granddaughters during bedtime. A blend of the classic fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty (alternately Briar Rose), Jewish history, and Yolen’s own life, it was first published in the Fairy Tale Series curated by Terri Windling. The Washington Post called Briar Rose “a terrifically moving story.Briar Rose is a 1992 novel for young adults by American author Jane Yolen. Yolen confronts the deeply tragic events of the Holocaust with lyrical prose and rich characterizations that tell a tale of good and evil, hope and despair. Yolen's graceful retelling of the German folktale of “Briar Rose”―known to some as “Sleeping Beauty”―sets the story amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II. Her vow sends Becca on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose.
Becca would have sworn the stories were made up, but on her deathbed Gemma extracts from Becca a promise to fulfill three impossible requests: find the castle, find the prince, and find the spell-maker.
And in that place of death, Briar Rose is plunged into a deep sleep.Įver since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories of Briar Rose. Corrupted by dark deeds and choked by a poisonous mist, the castle will soon come to be known as Chelmno extermination camp. In the heat of midsummer 1942, deep in a forest in the heart of Poland, Briar Rose arrives at a castle that has fallen into the hands of an evil army. Briar Rose is a historically sensitive retelling of Sleeping Beauty set amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II.
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