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Gregory Maguire, The New York Times bestselling author of Wicked, returns with his captivating new novel, Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker—the coming-of-age story that tells of the Nutcracker and Herr Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves him. Having brought his legions of devoted readers to Oz (Wicked), to Wonderland (After Alice), and to Dickensian London (Lost), Maguire sets his sights on the Black Forest of Bavaria and Munich during the time of the Brothers Grimm’s nineteenth-century Germany. Hiddensee is the backstory of the Nutcracker—how the magical creature came to be carved, and to have the power of ushering a sick child into dreamy paradise on Christmas Eve. It also tells the life and times of the mysterious godfather Drosselmeier, made immortal by Petipa and Tchaikovsky’s ballet as the ominous, canny, one-eyed toymaker whose presents the once and future Nutcracker to his goddaughter Klara. Ultimately, Hiddensee, offers a message of hope. If the compromised Drosselmeier can bring an enchanted Nutcracker to a young girl in distress, perhaps everyone, however lonely or marginalized on the eve of a winter holiday, has something precious to share.