I Shall Wear Midnight
The Midnight Dress ( English title: I Shall Wear Midnight ) is a fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett. It is the 38th Discworld novel. The midnight dress was published in 2010 and won the 2011 Nebula Award.
Scene of action is the chalk country. The Midnight dress is one of the witches stories but the witches of Lancre Trio plays an even smaller supporting roles, as in Wintersmith. The brunt of the story rests on the now five -year-old Tiffany Aching, which are now in their homeland pursues the tough job of the witch. Not only in matters of love runs while some wrong, the shadows of their past catch them and put gloomily over the country.
The Midnight dress is the fifth Discworld children's book. It is the sequel to The Winter smith and so the fourth book, which is devoted to the fate of Terry Pratchett Tiffany Aching.
The English title is a quote from a hatful of stars, where Tiffany says of the witches usual wear black clothes: " When I'm old I shall wear midnight, .... "
German edition
Munich, 2011, ISBN 978-3442546381
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Tiffany Aching has finished their education and lives now firmly established as a witch in their homeland, the chalk country. She is now a teenager, is deep in puberty and has her first love just behind it. Roland, the son of the Baron of which all had assumed that he and Tiff a couple would eventually has proved to be the wrong thing. Details in this regard remain saved us, but Tiffany is suffering, especially after Roland bring his future wife to the castle. Letitia, the daughter of a neighboring duke, blond, blue-blooded and girlish, represents everything Tiffany has not, and what, on closer inspection, vastly gets on my nerves. Where it is found in the course of the novel, that the real problems actually go out of their arrogant mother.
The Elusive, an ancient, bodiless beings, born of hatred, envy and fear, was revived by Tiffany powerful kiss for the Wintersmith. Since then, he makes the world a worse place, constantly in search of the powerful witch who brought him back to life. He poisoned the minds of the people by bringing out the worst in them to light and timid distrust can gain the upper hand in their thinking. A direct meeting between Tiffany and the treacherous is inevitable and the various narrative strands of the novel consistently work towards it.
First, a man mistreated on the Chalk his pregnant daughter so brutally that she loses her unborn child. Tiffany prevents an angry mob lynch the man and gives his traumatized daughter in the care of the Kelda of We - are - the - greatest! The next day 's rumored Tiffany had the girl kidnapped and the predatory goblins they had robbed and held them somewhere. Dies in the middle of this mess, the old baron care under Tiff's hands. A smug nurse accused of having caused the death and also stolen money. Your reputation as a witch is hourly worse, but they ignored the warning signs and flies to Ankh- Morpork to inform Roland who makes there with Letitia wedding purchases of his father's death.
To speed up the search for Roland, the city is in fact great, Tiff has a few dozen we- are - the - greatest! taken. They are known to have excellent finder, especially when urgent Pubs and must be searched. On the flight, the greatest once again play with matches and set the broom on fire, so they have to enter the city on foot. While we- are - the - greatest! Search Roland, looking Tiffany, in the Tenth Egg Street 4, Boffos joke shop on. Mrs. Prust, the owner, and even a witch helps to get repaired the ruined her broom and told her the story of the treacherous. Tiff is fascinated but also angry. She thinks it's totally unfair that they, because of the attempt to make the mistake with the Wintersmith well again, an even greater evil will have to answer. Everyone should formulate the cynical comment itself, the woman Prust left for such self- pitying whining has.
Find The Biggest Roland and Tiffany delivers their message. Because during their search but have caused certain elementary damage the efficient searcher, she spends, than the quasi- responsible, the following night in jail. Things can be damaged and corrupted things can be restored, to know even the greatest and reconstruct the destroyed inn " The king's head " almost true to the original. Because of the "almost" begs Commander Vimes very strongly about that Tiffany and her companions leave the city immediately. The favor is done to him.
Home are the rumors now escalated. Roland, very angry and sullen, sees itself in any case forced Tiffany to take into custody, what this is not entirely wrong, because she can finally sleep again in the cozy castle prison. It is now clear that the burial of the old barons and the marriage of the young couple must take place on two consecutive days. A shifted wedding brings namely misfortune, and the baron has just finally under the earth. Tiffany is certain that The Wicked is exactly choose this time to destroy them. Mrs. Prust confirmed this assumption. She comes all the way from the city to Tiff to warn that the monster now has a body and is on the way.
Funeral and wedding bring quite a few guests to the castle. Oyster lots of nobility from neighboring kingdoms are the witches arrived in large numbers at their head Esmeralda Weatherwax. They are primarily interested in how and whether Tiffany with the treacherous is finished. Against a few free meals though, they have no objection. The festivities take their orderly transition. Mrs. Prust defused thanks to its excellent person memory the unspeakable bride's mother ( "Say please anyone that I used to vaudeville dancer !"). This also relaxes Tiffany relation to the bride considerably, which, by the way also turns out quite magically gifted at second glance, even as a pretty nice and. In this context, it turns out that Letitia was also not entirely innocent of the appearance Des treacherous. In the early morning of the wedding day The Wicked arrives on the Chalk. With the help of Preston, a member of amazingly formed the palace guard, Tiffany lures him into a fiery trap and married at the same time, in an archaic rite, Roland and Letitia. End well, everything good, especially when it becomes apparent that Tiffany could have with Preston found the man of her heart.
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Translated by Regina Rawlinson; as a ( shortened ) Audiobook, spokesman Boris Aljinovic.