The Casket Of Time

An entrancing re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty for today's troubled planet, The Casket of Time is a fantastical tale of adventure, time travel, and environmental calamity from celebrated Icelandic author Andri Sn r Magnason. Fearless Sigrun is sick of all the bad news on TV and, even worse, that her [...]
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An entrancing re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty for today's troubled planet, The Casket of Time is a fantastical tale of adventure, time travel, and environmental calamity from celebrated Icelandic author Andri Sn r Magnason. Fearless Sigrun is sick of all the bad news on TV and, even worse, that her parents are totally consumed by it. The economic "situation" has gotten so bad they can only hope that someone else will fix the mess. When they see an ad for a new contraption called a TimeBox(R), Sigrun's family--along with everyone else--decides to wait for better times by hibernating through the catastrophe in their mysterious black boxes. But something goes wrong, and Sigrun wakes up too soon The city is in ruins, unruly forests and wild animals have taken over the streets, and all the grown-ups refuse to wake up, like they're under some kind of trance. The only signs of civilization are a band of kids like Sigrun, who are led by grandmotherly and mystical researcher named Grace. The world, according to Grace, is under an ancient curse. She tells them the myth of Obsidiana, the Princess of Pangea, who was trapped by a greedy king who had conquered the world and now wanted to conquer time. Believing he was protecting Obsidiana from dark and gloomy days, he put her in a crystal box made of spider silk woven so tight that time itself couldn't penetrate. Part Sleeping Beauty and part Snow White, the old fairy tale starts to sound like a prophecy Sigrun and her new friends are living through. Now it's up to them to break the curse, save their families, and mend the world before it's too late.