Jonathan Coe
The Broken Mirror

2017 |

Can desire really transform reality?From award-winning novelist Jonathan Coe and distinguished Italian artist Chiara Coccorese comes The Broken Mirror, a political parable for children, a contemporary fairy tale for adults, and a fable for all ages.One day Claire, to escape her quarrelsome parents, takes refuge in the …dump behind her house. There she finds a broken mirror, a nasty piece of sharp glass... yet she is strangely drawn to it. She soon discovers it has the power to transform even the most drab reality into a fairy-tale world: the grey sky is reflected blue, and Claire's modest, suburban house is transformed into the most beautiful castle.As Claire grows older, always accompanied by her magic mirror, she can see her face without her teenage acne, and her town before it fell victim to thieving property developers. But, in reality, libraries are being turned into luxury flats wherever she looks, and the boy Claire loves is instead her worst enemy.Frustrated and angry with the mirror's illusions, Claire is about to destroy it when the mysterious Peter steps in: he has also found a shard of broken mirror, and so begins their journey to piece together the larger puzzle...Previously published in Italian, French, Greek and Dutch, The Broken Mirror comes to life in English for the first time, to be read with equal pleasure by children and adults. Can desire really transform reality?From award-winning novelist Jonathan Coe and distinguished Italian artist Chiara Coccorese comes The Broken Mirror, a political parable for children, a contemporary… fairy tale for adults, and a fable for all ages.One day Claire, to escape her quarrelsome parents, takes refuge in the dump behind her house. There she finds a broken mirror, a nasty piece of sharp glass... yet she is strangely drawn to it. She soon discovers it has the power to transform even the most drab reality into a fairy-tale world: the grey sky is reflected blue, and Claire's modest, suburban house is transformed into the most beautiful castle.As Claire grows older, always accompanied by her magic mirror, she can see her face without her teenage acne, and her town before it fell victim to thieving property developers. But, in reality, libraries are being turned into luxury flats wherever she looks, and the boy Claire loves is instead her worst enemy.Frustrated and angry with the mirror's illusions, Claire is about to destroy it when the mysterious Peter steps in: he has also found a shard of broken mirror, and so begins their journey to piece together the larger puzzle...Previously published in Italian, French, Greek and Dutch, The Broken Mirror comes to life in English for the first time, to be read with equal pleasure by children and adults.

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Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Pevná
Počet stran:	81
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	1783524170
ISBN:	9781783524174
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	24. 2. 2025 0:56
Číslo položky:	1154133

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Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe se narodil 19. srpna 1961 v anglickém Birminghamu. Vystudoval univerzitu v Cambridge. Je ženatý a v současnosti žije v Londýně. Pracoval jako asistent anglické poezie na univerzitě ve Warwicku, jako poloprofesionální hudebník, korektor, novinář a spisovatel na volné noze. Napsal několik románů, například What a Carve Up! či The House of Sleep . Jonathan Coe o svém psaní prohlásil: „Psát jsem začal jako chlapec, ale teprve nedávno jsem se začal ptát sám sebe proč. Nejhorší typ románu je podle mě ten, ve kterém chybí humor. Pohled na tolik spisovatelů , kteří i nadále píší formou, která se zjevně vyčerpala, mi připadá poněkud směšný. Jsem si vědom, že Británie má silnou tradici experimentální tvorby, starou několik staletí, a překvapuje mě, že ji bere v úvahu jen tak málo našich spisovatelů. Přesto mi připadá naprosto zbytečné dělit beletrii na experimentální a neexperimentální. Spisovatel Robert Nye přišel s mnohem příhodnější klasifikací: podle něj existují pouze dva literární styly – živý a polomrtvý. Nemusíte ani hádat, o který z nich usiluji.“

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