Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon her finger whilst tending her kitchen garden, forces her into marriage with the gnome Corduanspitz. Can Anna find any way of removing the ring? Will her poet lover shake off his passive demeanour and come to her aid? And has Corduanspitz truly relinquished all ties to his gnome heritage, as he so proudly claims?Around a love story very much of its time, Hoffman arranges a narrative that brings to mind the most successful elements of contemporary magical realism and surreal comedy. Always entertaining, yet capable of a focused though subtle morality, "The King's Bride" brings disparate elements into a masterful harmony.
- ISBN10 1847490999
- ISBN13 9781847490995
- Publish Date 1 March 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 November 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Alma Books Ltd
- Imprint Oneworld Classics Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 120
- Language English