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Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double.
Nan A. Talese
May 2006
336 pages
ISBN: 0385516169
Hardcover
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction
On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides
in a hollow tree. There he is taken by the changelings�an
unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in
secret. They spirit him away, name him Aniday, and make him
one of their own. Stuck forever as a child, Aniday grows in
spirit, struggling to remember the life and family he left
behind. He also seeks to understand and fit in this shadow
land, as modern life encroaches upon both myth and nature. In his place, the changelings leave a double, a boy who
steals Henry�s life in the world. This new Henry Day must
adjust to a modern culture while hiding his true identity
from the Day family. But he can�t hide his extraordinary
talent for the piano (a skill the true Henry never
displayed), and his dazzling performances prompt his father
to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. As he
ages the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but
persistent memories of life in another time and place, of a
German piano teacher and his prodigy. Of a time when he,
too, had been a stolen child. Both Henry and Aniday
obsessively search for who they once were before they
changed places in the world. The Stolen Child is a classic tale of leaving childhood and
the search for identity. With just the right mix of fantasy
and realism, Keith Donohue has created a bedtime story for
adults and a literary fable of remarkable depth and strange
delights.
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