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FOREIGN RIGHTS AUTUMN 2013 - Hanser Literaturverlage

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C H I L D R E N ’ S F I C T I O N<br />

RAFIK SCHAMI<br />

© Foto Stephan<br />

When puppets<br />

dance to<br />

their own tune<br />

Year after year, Mario has been travelling the length and breadth of the country with his<br />

puppet show The Prince and the Poor Farmer’s Daughter. But his puppets are getting<br />

fed up with performing the same play night after night, so they stage a mutiny…<br />

The audience loves it when a lazy, good-for-nothing duke becomes a diligent, hard-working<br />

farmer and the Prince, instead of marrying the princess, weds a clever girl from<br />

down-to-earth country stock. But the puppets are bored stiff with playing the same parts<br />

over and over. They cut through their strings and assign themselves their own roles:<br />

Queen Selfless becomes the Sorceress GimmeGimme, court jester Po-face turns into<br />

Sidesplit the Clown. The only one who wants to hang on to his old identity is King Slugabed.<br />

At first Mario is horrified, but then he realizes that his puppets’ desire for liberty<br />

cannot be restrained, and from that point on they all perform together: the puppets in<br />

their self-chosen roles – and Mario as a giant.<br />

Rafik Schami<br />

Meister Marios Geschichte<br />

– Wie die Marionetten aus<br />

der Reihe tanzten<br />

Master Marios Story – The<br />

day the puppets took over<br />

With coloured illustrations<br />

by Anja Maria Eisen<br />

96 pages. Hardcover<br />

Format: 16 x 24 cm<br />

From age 8<br />

Publication date:<br />

August <strong>2013</strong><br />

Rafik Schami<br />

was born in Damascus<br />

in 1946 and has lived in<br />

Germany since 1971. He<br />

writes novels and children’s<br />

books; his work has been<br />

translated into 25 languages<br />

and won him numerous literary<br />

awards. His most recent<br />

publication at <strong>Hanser</strong> was<br />

the children’s book Das Herz<br />

der Puppe, illustrated by<br />

Kathrin Schärer.<br />

Anja Maria Eisen<br />

was born in 1972. She lives<br />

in Dresden and works as a<br />

freelance artist. She studied<br />

at the University of Art and<br />

Design at Burg Giebichenstein<br />

and at the Dresden<br />

Academy of Fine Arts. She<br />

designs and creates stage<br />

sets and costumes, and<br />

illustrates magazines and<br />

books.<br />

9 C H I L D R E N ’ S B O O K S<br />

C H I L D R E N ’ S B O O K S 10<br />

F O R E I G N R I G H T S HANSER<br />

F O R E I G N R I G H T S HANSER

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