Riusciranno gli innamorati “Fiorindo e Chiara Stella” a ritrovarsi? E cosa scoprirà il principe malinconico tra i magici melograni? Le fiabe popolari raccolte e tradotte da Paul Heyse ci trasportano nel colorato mondo fiabesco italiano. Giganti, animali parlanti e fate popolano queste fantastiche storie, che traggono origine dalla tradizione orale. Fiabe come “Cenerentola” sono ben note anche qui, ma le storie sulla saggia “Margheritina” o “L’isola della felicità”, dove la Fortuna attende, meritano di essere riscoperte. La raccolta di fiabe popolari è completata dalla fiaba letteraria “L’uovo nero” del siciliano Luigi Capuana.

She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, punishment and the exertion of power.

And the world around them is changing too: as the GDR begins to crumble, so too do all the old certainties and the old loyalties, ushering in a new era whose great gains also involve profound loss. From a prize-winning German writer, this is the intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history.