Vassa in the Night
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- Sarah Porter (Écrivain)
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“Why did it take me so many years to understand that Night is something you can talk to, something that might even decide to watch over you or kiss you just when you're about to crumple from loneliness?”
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Vassa in the Night
- France : 2016-09-02 (Français)
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Résumé
IN THE ENCHANTED KINGDOM OF BROOKLYN the fashionable people put on cute shoes, go to parties in warehouse, drink on rooftops at sunset, and tell themselves they've arrived. A whole lot of Brooklyn is like that now -but not Vassa's working-class neighborhood.
In VAssa's neighborhood, where she lives with her stepmother and bickering stepsisters, one might stumble onto magic, but stumblng away again could become an issue. Babs Yagg, the owner of the local convenience store, has a policy of beheading shoplifters - and sometimes innocent shoppers as well. When Vassa's stepsister sends her out for lithbulbs in the middle of the night, she knows it could easily become a suicide mssion.
But Vassa has a bit of luck hidden in her pocket, a gift from her dead mother. Erg is a tough-talking wooden doll with sticky fingers, a bottomless stomach, and a ferocious cunning. With Erg’s help, Vassa just might be able to break the witch’s curse and free her Brooklyn neighborhood. But Babs won’t be playing fair…
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