White Ravens’99/Chile (Spanish)/69750
Balcells, Jacqueline (text)
 Jullian, Andrés (illus.)
 El Mar de las Maravillas
 (The Sea of Marvels)
 Santiago de Chile [et al.]: Bello, 1997. 172pp
 (Editorial Andrés Bello ; 158 : Nivel 3)
 ISBN 956-13-1464-9
 Island
 The author has located the »Sea of Marvels« in the Pacific Ocean - a magical piece of ocean consisting of
 archipelagos and individual islands. The seven stories in this volume revolve around just these places -
 which will be found on no map. The island Omega, for example, which is waiting to become uninhabited,
 so that it too, like its sisters before it, can sink back into the ocean; or the island that fell in love with a
 human being and gives expression to its (obviously not merely) human feeling in a quite unique »language«.
 In her stories, Jacqueline Balcells combines elements of fairy tales, legends, and myths with the phantastic
 to form mysterious tales that reflect upon basic human concerns. (11+)

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