Ein Buch, das schon lange auf meiner Wunschliste steht, das ich mir bisher aber noch nicht zugelegt habe, ist The Glass Minstrel von Hayden Thorne.
Obwohl ich es noch nicht kenne, wollte ich es am Gay Friday mal kurz ins Spotlight rücken, da ich immer wieder darüber stolpere.
Klingt die Geschichte nicht herzergreifend?
Darum geht’s:
The Christmas season in mid-19th century Bavaria is brought to life in the THE GLASS MINSTREL, a new, original historical novel from acclaimed author Hayden Thorne.
Two fathers, Abelard Bauer and Andreas Schiffer, are brought together through the tragic deaths of their eldest sons. Bauer, a brilliant toymaker, fashions glass Christmas ornaments and his latest creation is a minstrel with a secret molded into its features.
When Schiffer sees Bauer’s minstrel ornament in the toy shop, he realizes that Bauer is struggling to keep his son’s memory alive through his craft. At first he tries to fault him for this, but then recognizes that he, too, is seeking solace and healing by reading his son’s diary, a journal that reveals, in both painful as well as beautiful detail, the true nature of his relationship with the artisan’s son.
In addition to the story of the two fathers, a third character is central to the plot: fifteen-year-old Jakob Diederich. The young man is burdened with his own secret; he develops an obsession with a traveling Englishman who stays at the inn where Jakob works.
The lives of all three men intersect during the holiday as Schiffer tries to focus on his family in the present; Bauer struggles to reconcile his past and Jakob copes with an uncertain future.
The lyrical prose and rich period detail will keep the reader engrossed from the very first page in this tale of redemption, hope, and haunting, but timeless, themes.
Das Buch gibt’s als ebook und Taschenbuch.
Hat es zufällig von euch schon jemand gelesen?