DAS ENDE
Acknowledgments
Marc Platt at Universal Studios, for asking the question about the Nutcracker.
Betty Levin, for inspiration and friendship these forty years and counting.
Barbara Harrison and the team of The Examined Life: Greek Studies in the Schools, and also that of its sister organization, Children’s Literature New England, for welcoming me back to Greece—especially Olympia, where this novel was seeded.
Bob Piller and Beatrice von Mach, for dearly valued friendship and for travel assistance and companionship from Zürich to
Meersburg and beyond.
Jill Paton Walsh, whose Hellenophilia has been constant and contagious.
Vivien Rameau, of München, for advice on Bavaria and on the German language （any mistakes are mine, for failing to ask the right questions）。
Christine Johner, M.A., Abteilungsleitung, Kultur & Museum, Stadt Meersburg am Bodensee, for answering questions about Meersburg
in the nineteenth century and especially about Mesmer.
Moses Cardona, of John Hawkins and Associates, literary agents.
Cassie Jones, Liate Stehlik, and the rest of the great team at William Morrow and HarperCollins US.
Scott McKowen, for the arresting cover artwork on the U.S. edition.
Ann Fitch, Rafique Keshavjee, and Andy Newman, for comments upon the manuscript, read in parts or entire.
Nikos Trivoulidis and Christos Lygas, at whose Athens home—a home in the Plaka once owned by Irene Papas!—sections of Hiddensee were first read aloud. On a rooftop terrace, just below the Acropolis and the temple called the Erechtheion, as the April
evening fell. Elysium.
Mara Kanari, ambassador-goddess of Greece to the scholars and fellows of the Examined Life: Greek Studies in the Schools,
for embodying the ideals of Greece, which yet survive, stamped on living generations.
Eva Varellas Kanellis and Panos Kanellis of the American Farm School in Thessaloniki （site of the GM Writing Center）， for
steady friendship.
The stalwarts of IBBY/Greece, who nominated GM for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize: Vagelis Iliopolous, Eva Kaliskami,
and Vassiliki Nika; and the staff of the I. M. Panagiotopoulos School in Pallini, Athens, for their continuing welcome.
Zacharias and Ana Tarpagos, flautists of Rafina, Athens, for heightening readings of Hiddensee with melodies of Greece and of Tchaikovsky.
The Gregory family of Albany, New York, and the far-flung Yiannapolous family, especially cousins from Kato Toumba, Thessaloniki,
for keeping lit the flame of family feeling.
The Prabhaker family of Northampton, especially L.L.P., for serving me at the Boys and Adders Café. We all get to come home
sometimes.
About the Author
GREGORY MAGUIRE is the New York Times bestselling author of After Alice; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror Mirror, and the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked—the beloved classic that is the basis for a blockbuster Tony Award–winning Broadway musical—Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. Maguire has lectured on art, literature, and culture both at home and abroad. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
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