An abridged adaptation of the Christmas story by Adalbert Stifter. Conrad and his little sister Sanna, while returning home from their grandparents house, get lost in the Alps on their way home, and find themselves on top of a glacier.
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Rock crystal
by Mayer, Elizabeth, Stifter, Adalbert, Moore, Marianne
fromNew York Review Books classics
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Type: Book
Two children, Conrad and Sanna, walk from their village in the Alps to visit their grandparents the day before Christmas. On their journey home, they take a wrong turn and are feared lost in a snowstorm.
Seemingly the simplest of stories--a passing anecdote of village life--Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring…