![]() ![]() "The Stolen Child" is a classic tale of leaving childhood and the search for identity. Both Henry and Aniday obsessively search for who they once were before they changed places in the world. Of a time when he, too, had been a stolen child. ![]() As he ages the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place, of a German piano teacher and his prodigy. But he can't hide his extraordinary talent for the piano (a skill the true Henry never displayed), and his dazzling performances prompt his father to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. This new Henry Day must adjust to a modern culture while hiding his true identity from the Day family. In his place, the changelings leave a double, a boy who steals Henry's life in the world. ![]() He also seeks to understand and fit in this shadow land, as modern life encroaches upon both myth and nature. Stuck forever as a child, Aniday grows in spirit, struggling to remember the life and family he left behind. They spirit him away, name him Aniday, and make him one of their own. ![]() There he is taken by the changelings- an unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret. " "On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, "The Stolen Child" is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. ![]()
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