Briar Rose
1992·241 pages
A young woman traces her grandmother's hidden Holocaust past through a Sleeping Beauty fairy tale retelling.
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A young woman traces her grandmother's hidden Holocaust past through a Sleeping Beauty fairy tale retelling.
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Windling's Fairy Tale series has produced several excellent fantasy novels inspired by classic fairy tales. This is one of the series's most ambitious efforts, and only a writer as good as Yolen ( Sister Light, Sister Dark ) could bring it off. Yolen takes the story of Briar Rose (commonly known as Sleeping Beauty) and links it to the Holocaust--a far-from-obvious connection that she makes perfectly convincing. Rebecca Berlin, a young woman who has grown up hearing her grandmother Gemma tell an ...
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What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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References to homosexuality and one non-explicit bedroom scene
Violence & gore
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Holocaust atrocities at extermination camps with brutality and horror
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Gay Polish prince character and pink triangle camp references
Religious content
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Jewish survivor themes and Rebbe character
Magic & witchcraft
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Framed as Sleeping Beauty fairy tale retelling
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Holocaust history, survival, and Nazi persecution themes
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Central Holocaust suffering, camps, and systemic cruelty
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