Hansel & Gretel : A Nightmare in Eight Scenes

Author(s): Armitage, Simon, Hicks-Jenkins, Clive
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 05/10/2023,
Pagination: 112 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571384457,
Description:

Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger, war and flight, a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems.

Text and illustration fuse beautifully to summon a nightmarish vision that nonetheless contains humour and humanity and the possibility of a more hopeful future to come.