The shadow dreamer
The shadow dreamer is a youth novel by Janine Wilk from 2012. It tells of a curse that was conjured up centuries ago and which a girl named Francesca has to break. The story takes place in Venice and is about the impending doom of this city.
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Many centuries ago, a curse was pronounced on Venice that drowned the city. Francesca from Germany visits her family in the Palazzo in Venice and meets the statue, the doctor with the pointed plague mask who comes to life. She learns that she needs a book that is very dangerous. Because if you open it, the “evil” comes out, but with silver (e.g. silver jewelry) it cannot come out of the book. The awakened statue desperately wants this book, followed and kidnapped Francesca. He even haunts her in her dreams, more like nightmares… In the end, with the help of her grandmother and the book, she manages to lift the curse and destroys the book and the statue forever.
reception
- Review in the features section of the FAZ
The book
- Janine Wilk: The Shadow Dreamer , Planet Girl , Stuttgart / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-522-50270-2 .
- Audiobook : Die Schattenträumerin : Abridged reading by Cathlen Gawlich (5 CDs, 339 minutes), reading version Anika Dürtler, directed by Katharina von Saarow. DAV, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86231-151-4 .
Web links
- Entry in the pearl diver
- Reading by the author on Youtube (6:37 minutes).