by Keith Donohue · Jonathan Cape Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224076968
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«The Stolen Child» is the fantasy novel by Keith Donohue, published by Jonathan Cape Ltd in hardback (336 pages, in English).
A seven-year-old boy, Henry Day, is kidnapped by the changelings, wild children who live hidden in the forest, and his place is taken by a double from the fairy world. The new Henry must hide his origins while dazzling on the piano, and the stolen boy, Aniday, tries to remember the life he lost. Both seek to know who they were before changing lives.
It is Keith Donohue's first novel, inspired by the poem of the same name by W.B. Yeats, and was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in 2007.
A fable for adults, intended for readers looking for fairy tales with a mix of fantasy and realism and reflections on identity.
Keith Donohue is an American novelist. He is the author of six novels: The Girl in the Bog (2024), The Motion of Puppets (2016), The Boy Who Drew Monsters (2014), Centuries of June (2011), Angels of Destruction (2009), and The Stolen Child (2006). His acclaimed 2006 novel The Stolen Child, about a changeling, was inspired by the Yeats poem of the same name.
