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Fantasy Book Review

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
2008

Genre
  
Novel

ISBN
  
9781741147964

3.6/5
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Country
  
Australia

Publication date
  
2008

Pages
  
362

Author
  
Margo Lanagan

Page count
  
362

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Publisher
  
Allen & Unwin, Australia

Awards
  
World Fantasy Award—Novel, Ditmar Award for Best Novel

Similar
  
Margo Lanagan books, World Fantasy Award—Novel winners, Fantasy books

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Tender Morsels (2008) is a novel by Australian author Margo Lanagan. It won the Ditmar Award in 2009 for Best Novel and was joint winner of the 2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.

Contents

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Plot summary

Based on the Brothers Grimm story of "Snow-White and Rose-Red", this novel tells the story of 15-year-old motherless Liga, abused by her father, and pregnant with her second child - the first being forcibly miscarried. As she attempts to take her own life she is transported to a magical place, a haven from the real world where she is safe from threat. But the membrane separating her new world from her old begins to rupture.

Reviews

  • Meg Rosoff in The Guardian found that "Tender Morsels, by the Australian author Margo Lanagan, is funny, tragic, wise, tender and beautifully written. It also left me gasping with shock."
  • Van Ikin in The Sydney Morning Herald argues that the novel is "a towering work of imagination in which a supremely talented writer opens rich new frontiers."

    • Awards and nominations

  • 2008 shortlisted Shirley Jackson Award — Novel
  • 2008 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Fantasy Division — Best Novel
  • 2009 winner Ditmar Award - Best Novel
  • 2009 joint winner World Fantasy Award - Best Novel
  • 2009 honour book Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
  • 2009 finalist Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel

    • References

    Tender Morsels Wikipedia
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