When Women Were Dragons

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Beschreibung

Imagine a world where women and girls can transform into dragons ...<br><br>Alex Green is four years old when she first sees a dragon. In her next-door neighbour's garden, in the spot where the old lady usually sits, is a huge dragon, an astonished expression on its face before it opens its wings and soars away across the rooftops.<br><br>And Alex doesn't see the little old lady after that. No one mentions her. It's as if she's never existed.<br><br>Then Alex's mother disappears, and reappears a week later, one quiet Tuesday, with no explanation whatsoever as to where she has been. But she is a ghostly shadow of her former self, and with scars across her body - wide, deep burns, as though she had been attacked by a monster who breathed fire.<br><br>Alex, growing from young girl to fiercely independent teenager, is desperate for answers, but doesn't get any.<br><br>Whether anyone likes it or not, the Mass Dragoning is coming. And nothing will be the same after that. Everything is about to change, forever.<br><br>And when it does, this, too, will be unmentionable ...<br><br>With masterful and immersive prose and nuanced exploration of constructs of gender, oppression and power Kelly Barnhill exposes a world that wants to keep girls and women small - and examines what happens when they rise up ...

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781471412219

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

211 x 134 x 31 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

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