Konrad, meanwhile, must discover the difference between love and obsession. Isolated, Zel wavers between recognition of her mother's sacrifices and her own fury, and wanders into madness. Zel's mother, no longer a routine villainess, has sacrificed everything, even her soul, for the witchcraft that enables her to have a daughter a desperate fear of Konrad's attentions drives her to imprison Zel in the famous tower. Napoli gently guides the reader through the inevitable consequences of this meeting, mining every movement in the fairy tale for its psychological treasures. By chance she meets a youth named Konrad unknown to her, he is the son of the count, and he is charmed by her apparent simplicity and forthright manner. In mid-16th-century Switzerland, Zel, on the threshold of adolescence, accompanies her mother on a rare trip from their remote cottage to the village.
As she has done for The Frog Prince and Hansel and Gretel, Napoli here visits her magic upon the tale of Rapunzel, creating a work of depth and beauty.
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