![]() ![]() ![]() A devotee of '70s survivalist movements, her father structures their lives in the woods with his paranoid philosophy, insisting that an apocalypse has destroyed everything - and everyone - in the world outside their forest. Abducted by her father after marital earthquakes she's too young to understand, 8-year-old Peggy Hillcoat trudges obediently after him into a primeval forest and spends the next nine years growing up with him in "die Hütte," an isolated cabin right out of a fairy tale. ![]() Spend nine years in the wilderness with the young heroine of Claire Fuller's debut novel, "Our Endless Numbered Days," and you might get an inkling. Reading once-familiar stories now populated with as many incestuous fathers and cannibalistic mothers as wolves and witches, one can't help but wonder who would spin such grisly yarns for children. Last year's newest translation of the unexpurgated first edition of "The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" gave many English readers their first glimpse of the German folk tales with all their original bloodlust and perversity intact. ![]()
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