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Enchantment

Card, Orson Scott. Book - 2000 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.8 out of 5

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"A Del Rey book."
In a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale, American graduate student Ivan stumbles upon a mysterious sleeping maiden in the Carpathian forest whom he awakens with a kiss, setting in motion a series of events encompassing the modern world and a world that vanished a thousand years ago.

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Then and Now submitted by kathscot on July 18, 2012, 8:26am A good read.
Card has cleverly revisited the Seeping Beauty tale in a Russian setting, weaving together various traditional tales. Interesting consideration of what is respectable in different cultures.

grown up Sleeping Beauty submitted by mtrax on August 5, 2014, 9:22pm This book is a grown up, fleshed out, modernized version of Sleeping Beauty. I love revisiting it every few years.

One of my favorite versions submitted by ValerieL on September 21, 2015, 1:57pm Enchantment by Orson Scott Card is a one of my all-time favorite "fairy tales retold". I'm a fan of the genre in general, but in my opinion, this one is particularly well done.

This retelling is set in the Carpathian mountains and the United States. The first time our hero, Ivan, comes across the sleeping beauty in the forest, he's only 10 and doesn't know what to do. He runs away but yet throughout the years, he can't forget the beauty. He has the opportunity to go back to the area as part of his graduate degree rework in obscure old Russian dialects. This time he wakes the beauty and is sucked into a world of magic, time travel and intrigue.

Bouncing between modern-day United States and medieval Russia, Mr. Card does a terrific job of interweaving Russian folklore with the Sleeping Beauty story and adding in modern day issues and settings.

I love re-reading it every few years because it's such a wonderful retelling of the story. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys fairy tales retold in other formats/settings or loves the story of Sleeping Beauty.

Sleeping Beauty submitted by SolaireFQ on July 17, 2016, 11:34am This is a really cool retelling of Sleeping Beauty that combines past and present and the traditional story with Russian folklore.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Del Rey, 2000.
Year Published: 2000
Description: 419 p. ; 18 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0345416880
9780345416889

SUBJECTS
Sleeping Beauty (Tale) -- Adaptations.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Fairy tales -- Adaptations.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Fantasy fiction.