Children's book – Die Reise zur Burg der Seelen

What if you miss your grandfather? And he is in the “Castle of Souls”, from which no one returns? Ten-year-old Val decides to look for this mysterious castle. In Malila, a turtle who can fly and speaks in rhymes, he finds a wonderful travelling companion. She knows who can help them – whether a dwarf woman, a yellow-grey rock or the healing octopus Elacaravolturna. First the two get into realms of terror, from which they have to find their way out again with courage and ingenuity: in an underground labyrinth they meet people's nightmares; in the changing city they experience how quarrelling and discord literally leave no stone unturned. Then they come to equally strange but friendlier places: the idyllic little town on wheels and the forest of silence or the palace of dreams … and at last Val sees his grandfather!

With her poetic language and dreamlike pictures, Ana Alfianu carries us off into fantastically colourful worlds in which everything points to a deeper wisdom: a story that truly stands in the tradition of Michael Ende.