The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy is on sale for $1.99 in ebook format. I don't know that it has ever been sale priced before--I've owned the paper edition for years. The book belongs in the subgenre of books that retell fairy tales during one of the World Wars, specifically WWII and the Nazis with this one--which Hansel and Gretel is rather ripe to deal with when you consider the story elements.
Book description:
A poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world
In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel." They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called "witch" by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them, even as a German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children. Louise Murphy’s haunting novel of journey and survival, of redemption and memory, powerfully depicts how war is experienced by families and especially by children.
"Lyrical, haunting, unforgettable." —Kirkus Reviews
"No reader who picks up this inspiring novel will put it down until the final pages, in which redemption is not a fairy tale ending but a heartening message of hope." —Publishers Weekly
