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By the Book: Book Club February 2020 - Spinning Silver

Lim Sue Ann, producer, The Bigger Picture

25-Feb-20 20:00

By the Book: Book Club February 2020 - Spinning Silver

For February, we take a look at a fantasy novel that received a lot of hype last year, including being shortlisted for a Hugo Award: Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik. A (very) loose retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin story, the novel draws on various familiar fairy tale tropes and then subverts them to tell a wholly unique fantasy adventure - one in which women are complex, diverse, and aren’t always “virtuous”. We wrap things up with a conversation on our favourite offbeat fairy tales and why they’ve stuck with us

Produced by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharmilla Ganesan

Presented by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharmilla Ganesan


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Categories:  Film,  Literature

Tags:  By The Book,  Spinning Silver,  Naomi Novik,  fairy tale,  fantasy,  Rumpelstiltskin, 


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