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THE * FAIRY * TALE * SERIES
-CREATED BY TERRI WINDLING-
BRIAR
ROSE~
THE + NEW * NOVEL * BY
JANE YOLEN
THE BRIGHT TALE

)F SLEEPING BEAUTY,

THE DARK TALE OF THE HOLOCAUST-
TWINED TOGETHER IN A STORY YOU
WILL NEVER FORGET.
ISBN 0-312-851359 $17-95
CAN - *22-95

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. . . Around the castle there grew a hedge of
thorns, which every year grew higher, and at last
there was nothing more to be seen, not even the flag
upon the roof. But the story of the beautiful sleeping
princess, Briar Rose, went about the country so that
from time to titne the King's sons came and tried to get
through the thorny hedge ...

So goes the German fairy tale of Briar Rose, the
Sleeping Beauty ... an old, old tale, yet so potent
that few among us do not know it today. Novi one
of America's most celebrated writers tells it afresh,
set this time in forests patrolled by the German
army during World War 11-a tale with no
guarantee of an ending that reads they lived
happily ever after.
A young American journalist is drawn to
Europe and to the past as she investigates the
mystery of her grandmother's life. From her
grandmother she inherited a silver ring, a
photograph, and the traditional tale of Briar
Rose: clues that will ultimately lead her to a
distant land and an astonishing revelation of
death and rebirth.
The story of the Holocaust, like the story of
Sleeping Beauty, is indeed familiar-yet such is a
master storyteller's skill that along the way we
learn the tale anew. This is a tale of life and
death, of love ar i hate, despair and faith. A
tale of castles and thorns and sharp barbed wire.