The Surface Breaks
A Reimagining of The Little Mermaid
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Amy Shiels
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Louise O'Neill
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Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale is reimagined through a searing feminist lens, with the stunning, scalpel-sharp writing and world building that has won Louise her legions of devoted fans in the UK.
The days of my childhood kept turning over, dissolving like sea foam on the crest of the waves. I have been counting them, the days and the nights, the weeks, the months, the years. I have been waiting for this day.
Deep beneath the cold, stormy sea, Gaia is a mermaid who dreams of freedom from her controlling father. On her first swim to the surface, she is drawn towards a human boy. Gaia longs to join his carefree world, but how much will she have to sacrifice? What will it take for the little mermaid to find her voice?
Hans Christian Andersen’s world-famous fairy tale is re-imagined through a searing feminist lens by one of our most talented writers. This is a book with the darkest of undercurrents, full of rage and rallying cries – storytelling at its most spellbinding.
©2019 Louise O’Neill (P)2019 Scholastic Inc.
Kritikerstimmen
"A masterpiece." (Marian Keyes)
"A fierce torrent of a book, raging and forceful and gripping. I was swept away." (Kiran Millwood Hargrave)
"Her prose cuts and rages and her vision of the Sea Witch is truly transformative." (The Observer)
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- Sylvia Grewe
- 27.03.2021
Amazing book about feminism and getting strong
I love this book! I think it's great for everyone and especially women and girls need to know it.
It's based on the tale The Little Mermaid, but it's a completely new story. It's about feminism and getting strong.
I really like the reader. She has a beautiful voice and is a perfect match for this book. I'm not a native English speaker but I could understand everything very well.
First of all I noticed the writing style of this book and I like it so much. It's very well-written. Gaia's thoughts are described very often - that brings depth to the story and many background information.
In the beginning the setting is the palace under the sea. It's a place were the seaking has all power and girls and women have no rights etc. It made me really angry to listen to that male characters who are so misogynistic. And Zale is seriously frightening.
The human world is also misogynistic but less than the sea kingdom. During the book it has driven me crazy that Gaia minimizes her own worth and value because she is very in love with Oliver. She hopes he'd rescue her instead of doing it herself. However her mindset is realistic because she grew up believing women were less worthy than men.
I was worried the book might end with her love interest being the hero as if she'd find anything she were asking for in a man. I hoped it'll end in a feminism way. And ... it doesn't end like I thought but I like the ending.
This book has made me think about our world and feminism and that girls and women must support each other and being strong instead of smiling and being quiet just because we were told so.
In the sea world it was like: quiet and nice and pretty obedient is what a girl / woman is supposed to be, but Gaia breaks out of it in order to follow her dreams and becoming happy. She thought happiness is to be with the boy she thought she loved but in the end it's being strong and confident. Because women are warriors - that's the moral of the story.
I'm sorry if that was a spoiler. I'm just in love with this book and its meaning. And I'd recommend it to everyone.
By the way I like the sea witch somehow.
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