How should “Briar Rose” actually be classified?
JANE YOLEN: “Briar Rose” was written and published as an adult book but has gotten into many high school and college courses as a core text. Because “Briar Rose” has, in fact, been so adopted by young adult readers, it has been reissued by Tor in its new Starscape line of Young Adult books, with a brand new cover (in March 2002). RES: In the book a fairy tale seems to serve as the basis for a novel, a mystery, and a Holocaust tale. How did you manage to combine all of these diverse elements into one work of fiction? YOLEN: The book is a novel by definition; it uses the fairy tale motif as both a thematic underpinning and as transitional material. But some (including my editor), would say the book itself is a fairy tale in that it uses fairy tale logic and has a fairy tale at the core since no women actually escaped from Chelmno. RES: What inspired you to write the story as a novel/fairy tale about the Holocaust? YOLEN: I had thought about doing a book on the Holocaust for a long time,
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