Language:EnglishPublisher:Crossroad PublishingISBN-13:9780824550370ISBN-10:824550374UPC:9780824550370Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Christian, Religious, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologySize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SC4MGN1EY0
This ancient story traces the adventures of the Little Czar who sets off to follow the star but does not make it to Betlehem in time. A precious book that can be read for simple enchantment or to look into a kaleidoscope of life itself. While most probably told from generation to generation, this magical story has never quite been written like this - with such charming imagination and deep love for the human and for the divine. Edzard Schaper is a grand storyteller who, it seems, has absorbed the spirit of a whole people.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Crossroad PublishingISBN-13:9780824550370ISBN-10:824550374UPC:9780824550370Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Christian, Religious, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologySize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SC4MGN1EY0
Born on September 30, 1908 in Ostrowo in what is now Poland, Edzard Schaper was a well-loved author of numerous novels, essays, plays for both theater and radio. HIs education mostly focused on music studies, but after he graduated he became an assistant director and actor in Herford, then assistant director at the State Theater in Stuttgart. During the 1920s, he published his first book, a novel named The Last Guest--soon to be followed by more writing. His greatest success would be the 1934 novel, The Island T?tarsaar. Schaper lived in Estonia from 1930-40 and worked as a correspondent for United Press. Because he declined to relocate to Germany in 1940, the Nazis deprived him of his citizenship and sentenced him to death in absentia. Schaper arrived in Switzerland in 1947 via Sweden, where he worked as a forest worker and secretary. Schaper would go on to write for over three decades. Schaper died on January 29, 1984, in Bern.
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This ancient story traces the adventures of the Little Czar who sets off to follow the star but does not make it to Betlehem in time. A precious book that can be read for simple enchantment or to look into a kaleidoscope of life itself. While most probably told from generation to generation, this magical story has never quite been written like this - with such charming imagination and deep love for the human and for the divine. Edzard Schaper is a grand storyteller who, it seems, has absorbed the spirit of a whole people.
Born on September 30, 1908 in Ostrowo in what is now Poland, Edzard Schaper was a well-loved author of numerous novels, essays, plays for both theater and radio. HIs education mostly focused on music studies, but after he graduated he became an assistant director and actor in Herford, then assistant director at the State Theater in Stuttgart. During the 1920s, he published his first book, a novel named The Last Guest--soon to be followed by more writing. His greatest success would be the 1934 novel, The Island T?tarsaar. Schaper lived in Estonia from 1930-40 and worked as a correspondent for United Press. Because he declined to relocate to Germany in 1940, the Nazis deprived him of his citizenship and sentenced him to death in absentia. Schaper arrived in Switzerland in 1947 via Sweden, where he worked as a forest worker and secretary. Schaper would go on to write for over three decades. Schaper died on January 29, 1984, in Bern.
