![]() ![]() ![]() Now Novik has expanded Spinning Silver into an ambitious novel that evokes not only the original fairy tale, but a whole panoply of fantasy spectacles ranging from elemental nature spirits to hints of Disney movies like Frozen or Moana (with one of those lava monsters that have also become ubiquitous in games and films like Wrath of the Titans). One of the highlights of Navah Wolfe & Dominic Parisien’s The Starlit Wood a couple of years ago was Naomi Novik’s “Spinning Silver”, a shrewd deconstruction of the Rumpelstiltskin tale, which highlighted, among other things, the anti-Semitic undertones of the original, a point which Jane Yolen and others have previously noted. ![]()
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