Gregory Maguire

Edición especial de la novela en la que se ha basado Wicked, la película protagonizada por Ariana Grande y Cynthia Erivo.En un pueblo de pescadores de Munchkinland, una región independiente de la tierra de Oz, nace la primera hija de Melena. Su marido, el parroco Frex, no puede estar con ella en tan delicado momento porque el Reloj del Dragon del Tiempo (un teatro de titeres), ha llegado al pueblo y sus espectaculos irreverentes y groseros estan haciendo estragos en la parroquia. La criatura se llama Elphaba, tiene la piel verde y unos dientes de tiburon con los que arranca un dedo de un mordisco a una mujer. No es cosa facil, ser la mala del cuento. Gregory Maguire visita en Wicked. Memorias de una bruja mala las entrañas de uno de los grandes cuentos de la historia y rescata a la niñita de piel verde llamada Elphaba, que crecera para convertirse en la Malvada Bruja del Oeste, una persona ingeniosa, irritable y poco comprendida que pone en tela de juicio todas nuestras nociones preconcebidas sobre la naturaleza del bien y del mal.

UNA VERSIÓN MÇGICA Y FANTÇSTICA DEL CUENTO DE EL CASCANUECES "Una confección deliciosa, mística y mítica por el encantador de historias Maguire, Esplendida revisión del cuento popular que nos lleva a toques familiares y culturales en reinos que hacen a Freud palidecer. Maravillosa" Kirkus Reviews "El tono de Maguire es oscuro y encantador en su nueva revision del clasico, una historia poderosa de esperanza y redencion que seguro deleita a sus fans" Booklist "Encantador, mistico y llena de prodigio, es el cuento perfecto para adultos" People Magazine Gregory Maguire combina la leyenda del origen del Cascanueces con la vida de Drosselmeier, su creador.Tras transportar a sus seguidores a Oz gracias a Wicked y al Pais de Nunca Jamas con After Alice, Maguire nos lleva en esta ocasion a los reinos de los Hermanos Grimm y E.T.A. Hoffman, a la encantada Selva Negra de Baviera y a los salones de Mºnich. Hiddensee trata los origenes del Cascanueces: ¿como se tallo esta fascinante criatura? ¿Como acabo guiando a una niña enferma llamada Klara a un paraiso de ensueño en Nochebuena? Hiddensee no es una mera version de un cuento clasico. En el prospero romanticismo aleman, Maguire descubre un bosque emigrante perteneciente a un misterioso culto helenico y sopesa una cue

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to be the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

Back in the land of Oz, the adolescent boy Liir was last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead, Liir is tended to at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by a silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba''s son? He has her broom and her cape - but what of her powers? In an Oz that, since the Wizard''s departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enought to grow up?

A farcical and imaginative novel by bestselling author Gregory Maguire

HIDDENSEE: A TALE OF THE ONCE AND FUTURE NUTCRACKER

Un gran fenómeno que, por fin, llega a España.En un pueblo de pescadores de Munchkinland, nace la primera hija de Melena. Su marido, el párroco Frex, no puede estar con ella en tan delicado momento porque el Relojo del Dragon del Tiempo (un teatro de titeres), ha llegado al pueblo y sus espectaculos irreverentes y groseros estan haciendo estragos en la parroquia. La criatura se llama Elphaba, tiene la piel verde y unos dientes de tiburon con los que arranca un dedo de un mordisco a una mujer. No es cosa facil, ser la mala del cuento. La niñita de piel verde llamada Elphaba, crecera para convertirse en la Bruja Mala, una persona ingeniosa, irritable y poco comprendida que pone en tela de juicio todas nuestras nociones preconcebidas sobra la naturaleza del bien y del mal.

An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn''t so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature.

Autor del bestseller Wicked. Memorias de una bruja mala. New York Times bestseller. UNA VERSIÓN MÁGICA Y FANTÁSTICA DEL CUENTO DE EL CASCANUECES«Una confección deliciosa, mística y mítica por el enca

The author of the beloved New York Times bestseller Wicked returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life of the mysterious toy maker named Drosselmeier who carves him.Hiddensee: An island of white sandy beaches, salt marshes, steep cliffs, and pine forests north of Berlin in the Baltic Sea, an island that is an enchanting bohemian retreat and home to a large artists colony-- a wellspring of inspiration for the Romantic imagination . . .Having brought his legions of devoted readers to Oz in Wicked and to Wonderland in After Alice, Maguire now takes us to the realms of the Brothers Grimm and E. T. A. Hoffmann-- the enchanted Black Forest of Bavaria and the salons of Munich. Hiddensee imagines the backstory of the Nutcracker, revealing how this entrancing creature came to be carved and how he guided an ailing girl named Klara through a dreamy paradise on a Christmas Eve. At the heart of Hoffmanns mysterious tale hovers Godfather Drosselmeier-- the ominous, canny, one-eyed toy maker made immortal by Petipa and Tchaikovskys fairy tale ballet-- who presents the once and future Nutcracker to Klara, his goddaughter. But Hiddensee is not just a retelling of a classic story. Maguire discovers in the flowering of German Romanticism ties to Hellenic mystery-cults-- a fascination with death and the afterlife-- and ponders a profound question: How can a person who is abused by life, shortchanged and challenged, nevertheless access secrets that benefit the disadvantaged and powerless? Ultimately, Hiddensee offers a message of hope. If the compromised Godfather Drosselmeier can bring an enchanted Nutcracker to a young girl in distress on a dark winter evening, perhaps everyone, however lonely or marginalized, has something precious to share.

Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire brings us the enchanting second novel in the epic fantasy series Another Day, returning to the world he first created in Wicked.The Oracle of Maracoor, the second in the trilogy called Another Day, continues this new chapter in the Oz saga with the story of Elphabas green-skinned granddaughter, Rain. That strange land, Maracooracross the ocean from Ozis beset by an invading army. In the mayhem, Rain and Cossy, a child felon, break out of prison. Helped by a few flying monkeys, they struggle to escape the city before it falls under siege. Their arresting officer, Lucikles, also retreats with his family to a highland redoubt. But safety eludes them all. Chaos thunders upon them in the form of warriors, refugees, and brigands. The very fabric of reality loosens, liberating creatures of myth and legendhuge blue wolves, harpies, and giants made of the very landscape. Cued in by secrets known only to the most highly placed members of the royal court, Rain and her companions hunt the fabled Oracle of Maracoor for guidance and soothsaying. Rain has to recover her forgotten past if she is to consider returning home. Cossy, the ten-year-old convicted of murder, must become invisible to avoid being taken into custody again. Meanwhile, the Fist of Mara, an arcane artifact that renders all around it barren, hammers against human lives. If the reclusive Oracle should spin a prophecy, might the desperate wicked years promise another day, one less perilous?

Is this new land a place where magics really happen?From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale.In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that its far more common for human beings to turn into rats....We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . and what curses accompanied Cinderellas exquisite looks?Extreme beauty is an afflictionSet against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iriss path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister.Clara was the prettiest child, but was her life the prettiest tale?While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, burning all memories of her past, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household--and the treacherous truth of her former life.God and Satan snarling at each other like dogs.... Imps and fairy godmotbers trying to undo each others work. How we try to pin the world between opposite extremes!Far more than a mere fairy-tale, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed--and love unveiled--in the most unexpected of places.

The first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years from multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire, featuring Elphabas granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain.Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz.But out of Oz isnt gone for good. Maguires new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives.Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphabas granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices.As the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the islands civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and wellbeing of an entire nation. Is it myth or magic at work, for good or for ill?The trilogy Another Day will follow this green-skinned girl from the island outpost into the unmapped badlands of Maracoor before she learns how, and becomes ready, to turn her broom homeward, back to her family and her lover, back to Oz, whichin its beauty, suffering, mystery, injustice, and possibilityreminds us all too clearly of the troubled yet sacred terrain of our own lives.

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersens "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girls poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York.Following her brothers death and her mothers emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relatives financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young womans heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.

The "enchanting" (EW) conclusion to this epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked, the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the Tony Awardwinning hit musical, now a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.Following a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the onetime Wizard of Oz, Rainary Ko, the granddaughter of Ozs Wicked Witch of the West, has re-upped in a mission to settle a few scores and right a wrong or two. Her memory and her passions reviving, Rain turns her gaze back to her native Oz in this compelling coming of age fantasy. While the Grimmerie, which she had cast into the sea, retains its arcane power over her, the lover she left behind in Oz proves no less haunting. Once bewitched, twice bewitching, Rain Ko must consider how to achieve a life less suffused with grief than the one she is enduring.Traveling such a distance is not without its perils to a young person more or less alone in a strange land. And, by now, Rain has debts to repay. To make good on promises, she must insist on a layover on an island emptied of its human population by a deadly plague. Revived there by love or magic (and is there a difference?), she sustains an assault on the high seas by pirates. The accumulation of her experience awakens within her a certain nascent magical power, which prepares her finally to touch down upon the far shores of Oz and address her own doubts and hesitations.Traveling companions and arrivistes can befuddle a young witch coming into her own. In her fast-paced and stately progress, Rain may remind readers of the courage it takes to accept ones full identity, unbridled and unruly though it may be.The Witch of Maracoor delivers on the promises of its predecessors, The Brides of Maracoor and The Oracle of Maracoor, and concludes the epic tale of Rains castaway life with nothing less than enchantment.