![]() Lissla Lissar is an amazing young woman her journey will stay with you. Donkeyskin is dark, haunting even but it’s also about hope and healing.Beautifully written, just as all of Robin McKinley’s books are.Fairy Tale retelling based on Charles Perrault’s Donkeyskin (The Brother Grimm version is Allerleirauh, which was my favourite growing up.'Donkeyskin' appears in other collections in variations such as Thousand Furs. ![]() and one day he tells her of a princess named Lissla Lissar, who had a dog named Ash. Deerskin is based on 'Donkeyskin', a Charles Perrault tale that is usually neutered and deals with the theme of incest. But a chance encounter on the road leads to a job in another king’s kennels, where the prince finds himself falling in love with the new kennel maid. ![]() However, it is very true to the source material and narrated in a matter-of-fact fairy tale style that renders its events all the more chilling. Featuring child neglect, rape, incest, and miscarriage, it’s definitely not for kids. But this likeness forces her to flee from her father’s lust and madness and in the pain and horror of that flight she forgets who she is and what it is she flees from: forgets almost everything but the love and loyalty of her dog, Ash, who accompanies her. McKinley embraces the original, making Deerskin one of her most adult novels. As Princess Lissla Lissar reaches womanhood, it is clear to all the kingdom that in her beauty she is the image of her dead mother, the queen. ![]()
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