Cornelia Funke

Guillermo del Toro

A thrillingly dark novel that shows the rare magic that can happen when two dazzlingly original imaginations come together to make a book. Bestselling author Cornelia Funke has written a novel inspired by Guillermo del Toro's captivating 2006 film. Beautiful, haunting, visceral, gutsy, it's a vastly inventive, grown-up modern fairytale, pulsing with power of stories to shape lives, hearts and minds.Ofelia has been sent to stay with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. For him, the dark and eerie forest in which they live is a cage, serving only to hide resistance fighters in the drawn-out and bloody civil war - those he has made it his aim to destroy.But with her mother bedridden, Ofelia is left unchecked and becomes enchanted by their magical home. Obsessed with fairytales, she is drawn deeper and deeper into a mythical world which is both cruel and kind, benign and deadly. For Ofelia, too, must endure violence, and eventually become a weapon, if she is to complete the tasks that will win her place at the centre of the labyrinth: the palace of the Faun...

The Labyrinth of the Faun

Pan's Labyrinth

Elke Maasbommel

That's what the books said, and didn't their tales feel so much truer than what adults pretended this world to be about? Only books talked about all the things adults didn't want you to ask about- Life. Death. Good and Evil. And what else truly mattered in life.

Children do notice those things, for all they can do is to watch - and hide from the storms the adults create. The storms and the winters.

“You're getting older. You'll soon see that life isn't like your fairy tales."

Vidal couldn’t see the Faun at all. Perhaps his own darkness made him blind to too many things. Perhans he already believed in too much grown-up nonsense to have room to see anything else. It mattered little.

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