![]() My doubts lie in the device of the two stages of eternity, the lands beyond death. ![]() The conflict itself will do it's conventional and mostly one - dimensional in human terms, yet powerfully told. Karl, brave at last, takes Jonathan on his back and leaps over the precipice-to wake, one understands, into that further light. He will walk again, he promises, if he can get to yet another land, Nangilirna, where dragons are rendered harmless by laughter. In the ultimate victory Jonathan is paralyzed by the dragon's breath. But as he has promised, when Karl too dies the brothers meet in Nangiyala, a paradisel land from the days of “sagas and campfires” where, however, they find themselves involved in a classic struggle against the tyrant Tengil and his enslaved, appalling dragon. (Ages 10 to 14)īrave, beautiful Jonathan dies saving sickly, frightened Karl. ![]() Not that I am against new departures, but the content of “The Brothers Lionheart,” a fantasy about life after death, seems to me dubious.īy Astrid Lindgren. Alas, let no one encountering this new book by the creator of Pippi Longstocking expect more of the same. ![]()
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