![]() ![]() Animals - those creatures with voices, souls and minds - are threatened with exile. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere. But Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters the university in Shiz, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz' most promising young citizens.Įlphaba's Oz is no utopia. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin - no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or to overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. Tolkien, Wicked is a richly woven tale that takes us to the other, darker side of the rainbow as novelist Gregory Maguire chronicles the Wicked Witch of the West's odyssey through the complex world of Oz - where people call you wicked if you tell the truth. Following the traditions of Gabriel Garca Marquz, John Gardner and J.R.R. ![]()
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