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The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart
Mathias Malzieu
Published
2010
by Alfred A. Knopf in New York
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Written in English
Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine--witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans--who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.
Edition Notes
Statement | Mathias Malzieu ; translated from the French by Sarah Ardizzone |
Contributions | Ardizzone, Sarah, 1970- |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | PQ2713.A374 M4313 2010 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | 171 p. ; |
Number of Pages | 171 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL24488847M |
ISBN 10 | 0307271684, 0307472132 |
ISBN 10 | 9780307271686, 9780307472137 |
LC Control Number | 2009044793 |
OCLC/WorldCa | 429022030 |
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The reader meets the boy, Jack, at birth, where a strange confluence of events results in his infant heart being fused with a cuckoo-clock, in what would be a 19th Century makeshift-pacemaker/5. The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (Vintage Contemporaries) - Kindle edition by Malzieu, Mathias, Ardizzone, Sarah.
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This is his third novel and the first to be translated into English/5(17). First the broken heart, then love, in this reverse-sequence fantasy about a medical freak, French musician/novelist Malzieu’s first U.S.
publication. On the coldest day on earth, Little Jack is born with a heart frozen solid. His teenage mother disappears for good; Jack owes his survival to resourceful midwife Dr. Madeleine, who attaches a cuckoo clock to his heart to get.
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My English edition of the novel was translated skillfully by Sarah Ardizzone. The story opens in the Scottish city of Edinburgh in the year of /10(1). The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu or his failing heart will break.
Of course, Jack does fall head over heels, for a little Spanish flamenco dancer, and we follow him as he. Jack finds himself with the girl again, but getting people used to his heart which is made from a cuckoo clock is where the real story lies.
Not exactly for children; some of the descriptions have sexual tendencies (I'd say no one under 13 at least), but the story in itself is imaginative and beautiful, with a biting reality ending. The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart has more metaphors than a million-piece mega-puzzle that artfully fits together as an exquisite literary masterpiece.
On the “coldest day on earth” the narrator and soon to be love-stricken young “hero,” Little Jack, describes the snow-covered city as, “The trees stretch their arms, like fat fairies in white nightshirts yawning at the.
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He passes out when he gets home, and wakes up later on in his room with a cold. Jack gets a new heart while he is in a coma, by a nurse during the 3 years. The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart has already been lauded as an adult fairytale, but it seems even more than that.
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