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Folk legends of the changeling serve as a touchstone for Donohue's haunting debut, set vaguely in the American northeast, about the maturation of a young man troubled by questions of identity. At age seven, Henry Day is kidnapped by hobgoblins and replaced by a look-alike impostor. In alternating chapters, each Henry relates the tale of how he adjusts to his new situation. Human Henry learns to run with his hobgoblin pack, who never age but rarely seem more fey than a gang of runaway teens. Hobgoblin Henry develops his uncanny talent for mimicry into a music career and settles into an otherwise unremarkable human life. Neither Henry feels entirely comfortable with his existence, and the pathos of their losses influences all of their relationships and experiences. Inevitably, their struggles to retrieve their increasingly forgotten pasts put them on paths that intersect decades later. Donohue keeps the fantasy as understated as the emotions of his characters, while they work through their respective growing pains. The result is an impressive novel of outsiders whose feelings of alienation are more natural than supernatural. (May)
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Adult/High School–When Henry Day runs away at age seven, he is captured by a gang of hobgoblins, or changelings. One of them assumes his identity and takes his place in his family, and the original Henry, now called Aniday, adapts to life with ageless children who survive in the woods, awaiting their turn to change places with a human. Told in alternating voices by the impostor and the real Henry, this story shows how their lives intertwine as they come to terms with their new realities. New England in the latter half of the 20th century is not kind to creatures of the shadowy realm, and the band of changelings slowly dwindles as housing developments and industry push away the forested areas where they hide. As much as the new Henry tries to assimilate, memories of a prior life nag at him, and he comes to realize that, just as he has stolen Aniday's childhood, his own childhood was stolen away from him in 19th-century Germany. Although the coincidences in their quests stretch a little thin at times, Donohue has created a haunting picture of two lonely spirits searching for identity in the modern world. He includes just enough fantasy that readers will look a little more closely the next time they are walking through a dark stretch of forest.–Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Fantastic!, Oct. 20 2009
Par Brad Saunders (Waterloo, Ontario) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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There's no need for me to rehash the plot here, as others have covered that off quite well already. I will say however, that I picked up this book on a whim, simply because I had a discount coupon to use, and am so glad that I did. Keith Donohue has written a novel that will pierce a place deep within you as you live through the struggles of two characters whose lives are forever entwined by the shared secret they carry. While falling broadly into the mythology/fantasy genre, this is no ethereal fairy story. The Stolen Child is very much grounded in the day to day lives of two people who grieve for a life they once knew, yet long to move forward to the promise of a better life ahead. This is one myth I will never forget; it will remain a part of my own story for a very long time.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Thoughtful and imaginative, Aoû 24 2009
I really enjoyed this book. It has much to say about how we construct our lives from memory, personal narrative and sense of belonging. I liked the chapter by chapter switching between Aniday and Henry, although I did enjoy Aniday's narrative more (and liked him more, I think) possibly due to it's fantasy foundation. This will make a very good movie as long as they don't lose the underlying psychological themes to an otherwise fantasy style story.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 The Stolen Child, Oct. 26 2008
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This review is from: The Stolen Child: A Novel (Hardcover)
"Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed -
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest
For he comes the human child
To the waters and the wild
With a fairy, hand in hand
For this world's more full of weeping than he can understand" W.B. Yeats

"The Stolen Child" by Keith Donohue is inspired by the poem "The Stolen Child" by W.B. Yeats, but with a modern twist.

Henry Day runs away from home and is taken by the faeries. Henry's family and others search for him and find him in the woods in the hollow of a tree. The rescuers are relieved to find Henry safe and sound and do not notice that the person they have rescued is a changeling who has taken Henry Day's identity and Henry Day is now known as Aniday and is living among the faeries.

The faeries are a group of dirty, lost, hungry "Peter Pans" who are trapped forever in their youth. They live together with a hierarchy similar to the children in "The Lord of the Flies". The leader is constantly abusing the females of the group because he was turned into a faerie at puberty while the others generally became faeries before puberty hit them. I found the treatment of all the female characters in this book disturbing with an apparent lack of respect for them, they seemed there only to be abused.

Aniday has lost his identity and with each passing day he remembers less about his human life, but he yearns to understand it and to keep a memory of it in form of the written word. It is hard to understand why Aniday wants to know so much about his past when all the other faeries do not exhibit the same lust for knowledge. I could understand if Aniday had come from an exceptional home, but he did not, he came from a home were he was unnoticed and therefore was game for the faeries.

The changeling that became Henry Day's impostor also has an identity crisis; he cares little for his new family, but has a passion for music and uses his family to fulfill that passion. He also was once a boy that was stolen from his home, but his past was long ago in Germany. As he grows older in his new human life he remembers pieces of his past.

His new father doubts his son is the true Henry Day especially with his new found ability to master the piano and the classics. In the end of the book the mother confesses to the changeling that she always knew he was not her true son. This part confuses me, how could she always know and not do anything.

The book is depressing and I had problems bonding or relating with anyone in the book. I did enjoy that both the changeling and the stolen child both found their identity through the arts, the changeling through his music and the stolen child thought the written word.


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